Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News, NFS and mixed CPUs: working
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.224151.4417@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 22:41:51 GMT
References: <27DFD553.5FB9@tct.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <27DFD553.5FB9@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>C NEWS SEMI-BUG #1:
>    Shared NEWSLIB is made difficult by the setnewsids program,
>    which is architecture-specific but which lives in NEWSLIB.

Yeah, that one's awkward, although setnewsids is probably not long for
this world.

>    Remote (client) inews is quite smart, automatically running
>    relaynews on the server.  But it has a bug: it assumes that
>    the paths on the server are the same as those on the client.

Hard to get around without other kinds of ad-hocery.  We assumed shared
filesystems meant shared name space.
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