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From: bent@lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.questions
Subject: C news vs. B news and Xenix
Summary: Does anyone really understand ihave/sendme
Keywords: Cnews Bnews Xenix
Message-ID: <295@lccinc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:10:42 GMT
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Lunayach Communications Consultants, Inc.
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I have built the latest C news version using gcc (from robobar.co.uk)
and am trying to get everything running smoothly.  I have the current
machine running the SCO BNews 2.11.19, and a serial connection to
the test platform.  Spacefor is currently set as a null, and all the
scripts have been hacked for the ":" instead of the #!/bin/sh

Now the problem.  I want to send all news from specific groups to the
new test platform using ihave/sendme.  I have the docs/man pages/instructions
from Cnews, Bnews and "Managing UUCP and Usenet" and have been over this
a couple of times.  However, I can't force the sendbatch to send the
ihave message.  Sendbatch does not appear to work properly.  After
some fooling around, I figured out what it was trying to do.  I faked
the entire news system for comp.unix to the ihave message and it still
failed.

Anyone who knows what the proper scripts for bnews - sendbatch and
cnews - spacefor for Xenix 2.3.2 should be, please let me know.

Thanks

Ben Taylor
Systems Administrator
LCC Inc.
uunet!lccinc!bent
(703) 516-7377