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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anyone got a cnews inews written in C?
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Date: 27 Aug 90 14:50:25 GMT
References: <6658@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1990Aug25.043752.19589@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Aug25.043752.19589@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

| Geoff is working on a mostly-C version, actually.  Inews originally seemed
| like a natural application for the shell, since it's fully of "policy" code
| that people might like to customize.  Unfortunately, it's now too big and
| complex for that to be a realistic thing to do, and slow to boot.

  I think both the original decision and the change were/are the correct
decision at the time. I really would like to see a nice *text* file with
the control stuff, and a C program to do the work. I assume that this is
what you mean by "mostly C".
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.