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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: SCO Bnews, C News, and ihave/sendme woes
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.152352.25750@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 18 Jan 91 15:23:52 GMT
References: <3130@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Jan16.182335.4237@zoo.toronto.edu> <3132@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <3132@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>,
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
> It may be that all the sites running C news are staffed with people who
> can't make it work, or that the documentation is less than clear. Your
> "very careful attention to the documentation and examples" leads me to
> believe that it's at least somewhat tricky, and feeding from a B news
> site may or may not be related.

I run C news here on undeed and talk ihave/sendme to a neighbouring B
news site.  I have mailed relevant extracts from the sys files of both
sites to the original enquirer.  On the C news side it required careful
RTFM'ing (yes, it is somewhat tricky, but the documentation and examples
are perfectly adequate).  On the B-news side it required a bit of
RTFC'ing (partly because I had deleted the B news docs but accidentally
kept the code on line).  Neither site cares whether the other is running
B or C news.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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