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From: kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Bnews and rn on an Apollo.
Message-ID: <424@digi.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 20:30:05 GMT
References: <9003270049.AA26263@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell)
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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In article <9003270049.AA26263@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov> root@VLSI-MENTOR.JPL.NASA.GOV (The vlsi-mentor Super User) writes:
>How do the RN users out there deal with the fact that their
>ORGANIZATION environment variable is set to "none"?
>

You have to make several modifications to 'rn' and bnews to make it work
correctly on an Apollo.  If you want I could post them.

The biggest problem you have to overcome is the file locking problem.  If you
are running in a multi-node network, you will run into this before long.


Keith Cantrell

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