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From: greg@cheers.uucp (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3 and News 3.0
Message-ID: <1T2jCZ#2QJR8M=greg@cheers.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 08:45:00 GMT
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srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) writes:

>Alas, this is exactly the same experience I had on one of the systems
>they claim to fully support (Sun 3/50 running Sunos 3.5).  I sent a list
>of all the problems I found (and corrected, until I hit the expire
>bogosity) to eric, but I haven't heard anything.  I'm sorry to have
>to snipe like this, but it's clear from the nature of the problems
>I found that the TMNN folks haven't done a from-scratch install
>of this release on *any* system, much less the ones they claim
>are solid.

1) It is still in Beta; expect to spend time on getting it to work.
   Although at this point I can install it using Configure and
   make with no problems (other than editing the resulting Makefile
   to use the Gnu C Compiler).
2) I have been running it for a least two months now on a Sun-1
   running SunOS 4.0, other Suns should have *fewer* problems :-)
3) There are many bugs in 3.8; many I have fixed and talked to eric
   about.  There should be some patches showing up in this newsgroup
   "Real Soon Now"
4) Many personal sacrifices were made (not really by me!) to take
   News 3 from an idea to a working system.  Don't knock those that
   are working for free...

Cheers!greg

PS. Since the patches were supposed to appear already, I will, against
my better judgement, mail my un-official patches to anyone who asks.
Just remember that they are unofficial, but they do make news3 work!