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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: WNEWS 3.0 is portable to COHERENT
Message-ID: <9104130920.04@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 91 14:38:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.171134.249@jrix.radig.de>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr11.171134.249@jrix.radig.de> joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Fred van Kempen just posted WNEWS 3.0 in comp.os.minix. Since I personally
>have no possibilities to ftp from piggy (I receive all software from piggy
>on diskettes) and so had to wait for a diskette with CNEWS I tried to port
>WNEWS 3.0, a small but nevertheless good news system to Coherent.
>Now it is working and I will test it more intensively.
>I now use CNEWS on my 386/ix and am interested in the Coherent version.
>But for all those who receive news but could not ftp from piggy they 
>should try to port WNEWS 3.0. The most difficult part is unbatch.c and
>sendbatch.c when  compress  is started. The rest is not too difficult.
>If anyone has problems with porting it mail me a message.
>If there is common interest (nevertheless CNEWS should be better) I will
>try to get it to piggy.


Cnews runs quite well under Coherent.  What are some of the features of
WNEWS?  How robust is it?  Just curious.

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