Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Installing Cnews under SCO Keywords: SCO, cnews Message-ID: <1991Jan30.141123.698@robobar.co.uk> Date: 30 Jan 91 14:11:23 GMT References: <331@glacier.UUCP> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 17 hal@glacier.UUCP (Harold C. Nevis) writes: > doit.bin halts while linking expire with the ld fatal error message > the the symbol _ftime (referenced in libcnews.a) is undefined. > Do I need to define a special lib for the linking operation? The xenix library (Linker library flag -lx) gives you ftime(). If you had told build "usg" rather than "v7" C News would not even have asked for ftime(), but you might as well use the one in the xenix library.... > Any suggestions on installing Cnews under SCO would be appreciated. Me, I just used my old Xenix binaries ... :-) You may find that the kernel ETRUNC parameter might be useful if any of your newsgroups have component names > 14 characters in length. -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)