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From: peter@cassandra.uucp (Peter Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NNTP for RS6000 AiX?
Keywords: NNTP
Message-ID: <1990Dec04.153608.22480@cassandra.uucp>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:36:08 GMT
References: <531@research.cc.flinders.oz>
Reply-To: cassandra!peter@yenta.alb.nm.us (Peter Blemel)
Organization: Management Sciences, Inc.
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I thought about emailing this, but then I figured others might want to know.

I have a 520 nntp serving for a VAX, a Sun 4, a 530, and IBM RT. I grabbed the
out-of-the-box latest version and installed it. There were some header file
problems, but I think for the most part it only took about an hour to install
(I usually tossed it in the background and looked at the make output, so the
install time could have been less).

We're a UUCP connection using cnews, nntp, and rn. I seem to recall making
minor changes to most of these packages. I am pretty sure that most of the
changes I had to make were along the lines of commenting out declarations of
functions that IBM made inline macros for (which generally produce complaints
about too few macro arguments).

There's probably someone out there with ftp'able patches. I can't e-mail the
sources, but I'll do anonymous UUCP if anyone wants any of these.

Peter
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