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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: trn: is an article read or unread?
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Date: 11 Feb 91 14:02:28 GMT
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>updatemin is more portable to non-unix systems.  It compiled and ran
>with no modifactions on os9/68k.  Am I the only one running C news on
>a system without a bourne-shell look alike?  (There are a number of
>shell scripts that are part of C news, but few of them are vital to
>the functioning of a news system.)

I don't buy the argument that using some shell scripts make things 
more portable either.  Using them changes the requirements from a C 
compiler and compatible routine calls to a C compiler, compatible 
routine calls, a bourn-shell (or compatible) and a slew of little 
utility programs.  

I do notice that scripts generally run slower.
-- 
Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us