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From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Who has news running?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 08:21:42 GMT
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In an article of 14 Dec 90 15:36, Brian Bainter <brian@VDBSAN.UUCP> says:
> All right, fess up!!!  I know that there are those of you who are running
> news on MINIX, so come up with the goods (please???)!  I heard some time
> ago that someone (can't remember who) was working on it, and then I hear
> of people actually running it.  I am talking about the small model PC
> version of course (with all of the versions running around however, I may
> be mistaken about this).

The news package you're probably talking about seems to be FvK's WNEWS, still
unposted (unfinished?). I remember seeing a post of a news package December 89
(that far. Times goes fast). As for myself, I got my hand on news v2.11 and
tried to make it work on Minix. All compiled correctly (with some editing),
but I couldn't make inews work - the code is awful, relies heavily on the
"right" behaviour and even uses bugs or simulate them on versions were they
were corrected - at all. Since inews is the heart of the whole system, well,
it means that news don't work (yet) on my Minix.

> If it is still in development, a status report would be appreciated.

Yes, I would like one too... I'm rewriting a news package from "near scratch"
(keeping all the stuff that works from v2.11), but would appreciate if all my
efforts were not wasted/duplicate of others. Fred, some comments? Maybe a
(small) progress report on your network/usenet packages. Wmail is up and
running, but umail/uucp are old versions and wnews is still in limbo.

	Vincent Archer
	Email: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com

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