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From: bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO
Summary: what, no sauce?
Keywords: SCO, News
Message-ID: <578@DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:13:57 GMT
Expires: 30 Oct 90 00:00:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.220547.7205@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <95@mq.com>
Reply-To: bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth Western Australia
Lines: 47

In article <95@mq.com> alan@mq.com (Alan H. Mintz) writes:
>In article <1990Sep30.220547.7205@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>> I recently exchanged mail with a user down under about his bogus
>> .UUCP suffix, instead of the correct .oz.au that he showed in
>> his .sig files.

Yup, it's me... I've had to bash the Sender: and Reply-To: by hand.
See the bruises? :-)

>> He told me that SCO had shipped only them only binaries for
>> bnews, with the .UUCP hardcoded into it.
>> 
>> 1) Why would SCO ship brain_damaged binaries such as this?
>
>I don't know about _brain-damaged_. Not everyone has a registered
>domain address. Such sites are usually distinguished by the .UUCP suffix,
>which is known to be bogus. SCO provides a service to people without
>access to a developement system by shipping a compiled Bnews distribution.

This is very amusing, since the development system was ordered at
the same time from the same distributor.

>Documentation regarding the configuration used to compile it is sparse, but
>I suppose it wouldn't mean much to those requesting it anyway. Exploring
>around in the binaries let me patch mine to change the uucp suffix to com.

Well, 100+ pages is not sparse.  If only I could do what it
promises, if I had the source.  Unfortunately, my suffix is oz.au,
too long to fit in UUCP.

>In poking around just now, I discovered that, if there is a file named
>"localdomain" in your /usr/lib/news directory, Bnews will create your
>system name by appending whatever is in the "localdomain" file to the

Doesn't work on my version, in SCO Unix.

I've tried compiling C-News, but I'm having serious problems.
First, filename length of 14 characters is strictly enforced.  I had
to unarchive the sources on my Amiga (seriously), rename long files
to something unambiguous, and then send them back up.  There are
numerous compiler warnings, from all modules, and include files
aren't found.  I'd post a list of errors, but that's too
depressing.

Has anybody got C-News working on SCO Unix?

bernie