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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: mi.misc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Problems with Patch and C News
Message-ID: <8wokN5w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 8 Aug 90 07:51:54 GMT
References: <342@tygra.ddmi.com>
Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) writes:
> know if there is a way to enable/disable automatic rmgroups and
> newgroups. I guess I'm too lazy to look through all the source code
> and it didn't seem to be in the obvious places (NEWSBIN/ctl/rmgroup
> and newgroup scripts). 

The C News sources/binaries aren't on this machine, so I can't check.
It's probably something to do with the rmgroup and newgroup scripts,
but I'd (you'd) have to look around.

> I'm also getting problems with people running postnews (a Bourne Shell
> Script) from csh. For some reason, csh doesn't see the "# !/bin/sh"
> in the file and tries to execute the script itself, which fails with
> a "variable syntax" error (Bourne Shell and csh use different variable
> syntax). This seems to occur intermittantly in Xenix.

I don't think Xenix understands the "#!/bin/sh" syntax.  To be safe,
replace all "#!/bin/sh" occurances with ": use /bin/sh", which works
just fine.

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