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From: mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: rn won't compile on my SCO UNIX
Summary: do you have the patches
Keywords: rn SCO XENIX
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.224404.16627@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 03:43:53 GMT
References: <1821@utodaycom> <1990Oct06.011938.8384@virtech.uucp> <39757@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
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In article <39757@cup.portal.com> Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) writes:
>In followup to article <1821@utodaycom> by sean@utoday.UUCP,
>Conner P. Cahill (uunet!virtech!cpcahill) writes: 
>>>I just got a copy of SCO UNIX 3.2 and the accompanying development
>>>run into what may be a less-than-minor problem. rn won't compile. I
>>

B news 2.1? is available from SCO as a two-disk SLS set that installs under
custom.  It's downloadable free of charge from their anonymous uucp system,
"sosco", or from many other places (uunet.uu.net, among others).

The last time I compiled rn on a 386 XENIX box (2.3.2) I got all the patches
from uunet and all I had to do was to use fixhdr to change the stack space
for /bin/sh so that Configure would work; other than that it compiled with
no changes at all.  The more recent rn patches include modifications for
XENIX compatibility.

I know of several XENIX systems that got Cnews running; the people who did
it did not seem to have much trouble, other than the usual ones.
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