Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where is latest C News for HP-UX 7.0?
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.230850.27542@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <361@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 1991 23:08:50 GMT

In article <361@camdev.comm.mot.com?> sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Steve Scott) writes:
>... Where are the latest sources?

The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by
anonymous ftp from cs.toronto.edu in file pub/c-news/c-news.Z (a shell
archive) or pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z (a tar archive) and the complete set
of patches can also be found on cs.toronto.edu in the directory
pub/c-news/patches.  FTP during our peak hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is
not encouraged.

>What is
>the latest version/patch level?

The latest patch was 15-Dec-1990.  I'd hoped to get another out -- some
small fixes and the usual run of routine upgrades -- before I left for
Boskone, but that now looks unlikely, so prognosis is that the next one
will be late this month.

>Are there extensive modifications
>required to make it play on hp-ux?

Not that anybody's told us in particular... assuming you have a working
shell.  If you can run something like this:

	x=y
	if test " $x" != " y"
	then
		echo oops
	fi

and not have it say "oops", you should be all right; otherwise you're
in for tedious surgery on shell scripts to work around this bug, which
HP appears to have introduced in the course of trying to make the shell
8-bit clean.  Maybe they haven't propagated it onto the Apollos...
-- 
"Maybe we should tell the truth?"      | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Surely we aren't that desperate yet." |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry