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From: bent@lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Converting B news to C news on SCO Xenix 2.3.2
Keywords: news xenix
Message-ID: <280@lccinc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 90 13:41:05 GMT
Organization: Lunayach Communications Consultants, Inc.
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We have been using the B news distribution from SCO and have found it
to be just too slow.  We get the better part of a full feed, and the
machine spends most of its day and night unbatching news.  The machine
is a Compaq 386/33 with a 387, 14 Megs and a 650 Mb disk.  This is not
a slow machine!  After reading this news group for a couple of weeks and
looking over the C news documentation, I have it built. 

What I want to know is:

  1) is there anyone who has gone from B news to C news who might
	 be able to shed some light on any problems there may be in 
	 doing this change (especially on Xenix)

  2) I had some problems with the shell scripts.  It would appear that
	 Xenix does not recognize the #! /bin/sh construct.  Can any one
	 confirm this.

  3) We will be converting to Interactive Unix 2.2 in a couple of months.
	 Anyone have any experience moving the news from one OS to another.

Thanks.

Ben Taylor					"What I say, MINE MINE, ALL MINE"
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