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From: rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent questions
Keywords: Usenet, Disk space, etc.
Message-ID: <25038@frog.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 91 08:08:00 GMT
References: <1057@hrshcx.csd.harris.com>
Reply-To: rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Lines: 57

In article <1057@hrshcx.csd.harris.com> steved@hrshcx.csd.harris.com (Steve Daukas) writes:

>Greetings one and all!  I was pleased to see this group pop up
>when I opened RN...  I thought I might add some info that is
>neither fully qualified nor something I have seen with mine own eyes,
>but have been informed of (e.g., something more than a rumor):

>A short while ago, I began posting for help in starting up a Usenet
>node under Coherent.  I got lots of help, including a few phone calls
>covering various enhancements that individuals are currently working on.
>These include:  smail, Cnews, rn, and Elm.  There are several who have
>some public directories on their machines and who have offered sources
>to me.  I don't feel that I can divulge this info on my own, but I will
>alert these individuals about this group.

I'm running smail, cnews, and rn.  These are or soon will be on MWC bbs.
Mail in your card and get registered.  Set up UUCP, and download the
news and contents files from MWC bbs.

To do this, RTFM.

>There is one person who is actually running Cnews using Coherent with a 
>feed from a local company via Uucp...

There is probably two or three of us.

>Enough of that!

>I wanted to ask some questions since I am a new Coherent user myself
>(I haven't even registered with MWC yet):

Register.


>I have installed Coherent on a 10Meg partition and have played around a little
>(nothing too in-depth yet).  I am looking for some real-life feedback on
>how much disk is required for a system (e.g., a user partition for
>myself and maybe two others - primarily used for work related activity
>(software development and archiving stuff)).  I realize this is an ambiguous
>question, but what the heck!  I also will need another partition to store
>the Usenet stuff for a few days, so I'll guess that this is another ~40Meg.

At least.

>The other question I would like to ask is:  Are there other Coherent
>groups on the way for things like binaries, sources, etc.?


I hope so.


This is posted from frog, the Bnews site that I administrate.  I would have
posted from rmkhome (Coherent, Smail, Cnews, Rn), but I was logged in here
anyway, doing some maintenance.  


Rick Kelly	rmk@frog.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP