Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What is the best way to read news in a network.
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.142429.23039@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 14:24:29 GMT

In article <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>... We can share files with NFS.  However the hosts are not
>binary compatible, so separate news software will be needed on the other
>hosts.

Note that if any of the software in question wants to read the history
database, you'll want to at least use the C News dbz, which works even
if the machine that built the database and the one reading it have
different byte orders.  Neither dbm nor old dbz has this property.
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