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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: News Under Minix
Keywords: News Reading Forwarding
Message-ID: <39635@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 14:04:43 GMT
Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: Computer Consoles, Inc., An STC Icon, Rochester, NY
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I am taking the plunge over to Minix for my system.  I will be upgrading to
a 386sx board and installing all the 32 bit stuff for it (estimated time is
a month total).  Minix is my system of choice because (a) I do not have the
money for a System V package, even Esix (b) it can run 32 bit stuff using
Bruce's patches (thanks Bruce) (c) it comes with source.  The fact that I
like Minix has nothing to do with it! ( :-) ).

My problem: my home site currently forwards news to other sites.  I need to
continue this from Minix.  I know that there are patches for vn to read the
news.  And I understand that there are problems running some of the Cnews
scripts under the Minix shell.  I would be willing to even help alpha- or
beta-test any news programs that people might be working on.

Oh, and one more thing - does anyone know how the UUPC software package
(the version that was made to look like standard UUCP with uucico, uucp,
 uux, etc.) handles RNEWS requests/packages?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW		cci632!ccird2!tvf@uunet.uu.net
	tvf1477@ma.isc.rit.edu      atexnet!kodak!swamps!frau!tvf@uunet.uu.net
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