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From: rmr@cci632.UUCP (Ralph Russo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: cnews on a 3B1 with ksh
Message-ID: <37413@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 17:08:04 GMT
References: <1990May22.212714.6570@bagend.uucp> <2254@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: rmr@ccird3.UUCP (Ralph Russo)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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In article <2254@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1990May22.212714.6570@bagend.uucp> jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) writes:
>
>| Given that all of the cnews files begin with '#! /bin/sh', why
>| do the processes blindly run off and do their /bin/ksh thing?  If you
>| are going to tell me to RTFM about why #! /bin/sh does not work on the
>| 3B1, please include the page number you found it on, okay?  I missed it.
>
>  Have you ever seen a manual which listed all the things which are not
>features? As far as I know the 3B1 does not have any such feature, which
>is why it is not documented. I believe that SYSV has a feature which is
>"uses" or something, but I can't find it quickly right now.
>
>  If you RTFM and it doesn't mention a feature, chances are good that
>you are looking for something which is *not* a feature, or is a feature
>of some other o/s. It doesn't tell you how to run DIR or get the A>
>prompt, either.

First, I don't have TFM (lost them in a move).  But, I would like to
point out that the 3B1 does support the "uses" thing.  The syntax is:
': use /bin/sh'.

Putting the "uses thing" at the first line of inews fixes the problem
with postnews and for Pnews *when Pnews is invoked under rn*.  The
strange thing is that it doesn't fix the problem when Pnews is invoked
directly.   Is this because Pnews is a shell script?

P.S. Nobody has to answer that last question because I don't have TFM
*AND* because it is really only a curiosity to me.

Ralph Russo - rmr@cci632.UUCP, rmr@ducksoup.UUCP