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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: WNEWS 3.0 is portable to COHERENT
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.170437.11812@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:04:37 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.171134.249@jrix.radig.de> <9104130920.04@rmkhome.UUCP>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
Lines: 51

rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

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

I use CNEWS on my Interactive and am still waiting for the diskette with
Coherent-port of CNEWS.

WNEWS is a bnews 2.11 based small news system that now works without any
problems. You have rnews, unbatch, inews, sendbatch, expire and some
utilities for control messages. 
Here my /usr/lib/news:

drwxr-xr-x  2 news       news           432 Sun Apr 14 16:26 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 bin        bin            672 Sun Apr 14 16:17 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 news       news          1346 Sat Apr 13 22:17 active
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 cancel
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 checkgroups
-r-xr-xr-x  2 news       news          9846 Thu Apr 11 21:00 checknews
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 control
-rw-r--r--  1 news       news           276 Thu Apr 11 21:00 distributions
-rw-rw-rw-  1 news       news           347 Sat Apr 13 22:08 errlog
-r-sr-s---  1 news       news         20354 Thu Apr 11 21:00 expire
-rw-rw-rw-  1 news       news         17517 Sat Apr 13 22:17 history
-r-sr-sr-x  1 news       news         23378 Thu Apr 11 21:00 inews
-rw-rw-rw-  1 news       news          1739 Sat Apr 13 22:18 log
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 newgroup
-rw-r--r--  1 news       news          2705 Thu Apr 11 21:00 newsgroups
-rw-r--r--  1 news       news            37 Thu Apr 11 21:04 organization
-r-sr-sr-x  2 news       news         13760 Thu Apr 11 21:00 pnews
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 rmgroup
-r-sr-sr-x  2 news       news         11214 Thu Apr 11 21:00 rnews
-r-sr-s---  1 news       news         14940 Thu Apr 11 21:00 sendbatch
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 sendsys
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 senduuname
-rw-r--r--  1 news       news            65 Thu Apr 11 21:19 sys
-r-sr-s---  1 news       news         14896 Thu Apr 11 21:00 unbatch
-r-sr-s---  8 news       news         16642 Thu Apr 11 21:00 version

WNEWS is all you need and very small. I like it. Nevertheless CNEWS has
more utilities

Joachim


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