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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Converting B news to C news on SCO Xenix 2.3.2
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.071233.4401@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 90 07:12:33 GMT
References: <280@lccinc.UUCP>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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In article <280@lccinc.UUCP> bent@lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor) writes:

> We have been using the B news distribution from SCO and have found it
> to be just too slow.

Not surprising -- it's a 286 large model programme set -- the slowest
kind of binary to execute on your machine.  Nearly every instruction
reloads the MMU so......<cough, splutter>

> After reading this news group for a couple of weeks and
> looking over the C news documentation, I have it built. 

Be sure to run all the regression tests.  Check the makefiles in each
source subdirectory for instructions on how to do so.  This simple step
would have saved lots of people who didn't realise that dbz needed to
compiled without -O if you've got Microsoft's compiler (I use GCC so
I don't have that problem)

BTW Henry: why does the notebook say that GCC needs -traditional ?
I don't seem to need it.

>  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.

I 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.

Theoretically, you should be able to just copy your Xenix binaries over.
I did that when I moved news to a machine running SCO Unix 3.2 which is
drived from the same base OS as ISC 2.2 (or so they say :-)
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