Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: The Joys of C news Keywords: C news, noise Message-ID: <2466@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Aug 90 15:02:20 GMT References: <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug26.074604.10583@amd.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 23 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: | No, most of my problems would go away if I had some less exotic UNIX systems. | Henry knows that, we've had enough E-mail discussions about the problems with | news on old System III/286 boxes. In fact that was why I went to C news in | the first place, after Henry pointed out that it ran in small model (at least | it ran on the PDP-11). Someone around here got 2.11.17 running on PC/ix, and that's SysIII with no other model than small. I don't know what had to change to do it, if anything, the compiler on that system seems pretty good. | | Still, there are things that could be done in the installation and admin | scripts that would make things a lot easier. Henry sees them as coddling the | user. I see them as cheap (and obvious) enhancements. Amen! B news is full of stuff which someone wrote because it made life easier *and which became part of the distribution*. I have the feeling that either no one is sharing C news tools, or they're not being incorporated in the package. -- 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.