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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
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Date: 27 Aug 90 14:56:33 GMT
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In article <5JG5B9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

| > Opinions vary on this.  We've had no shortage of "went in fine, no problems"
| 
| Probably from BSD sites. System V/386 requires hacking the free space scripts.
| And of course our Xenix System III/286 nodes were pure hell. BNews was easier
| to handle, but much slower and buggier.

  Too true. You don't hear much about the systems which work fine with
configure, but there are a lot of common machines which are not stock
BSD, and they install B news without problems. Naturally no one has done
all machines, but we've been sucessful with Sun 2, 3, 386i, 4, Ultrix,
Xenix[23]86, {SCO,ISC} UNIX, and a couple of Motorola and Stellar
machines who's models I forget, but which were either very stock SysV,
or highly hacked SysV.

  C news on a Sun went pretty well for install, was dropped due to admin
effort (training time, not that it was all that hard). C news didn't go
in on the Xenix or 386 UNIX boxes, although I believe it could be done.

  I'm hoping to try TMNN on V.4 in the next few days, and I'll give you
a report if I get to try it.
-- 
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.