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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: C-news and SCO Xenix 2.3.3
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organisation
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 03:05:57 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.030557.19919@jpradley.jpr.com>
Keywords: slow relaynews
References: <1991Apr24.030223.7753@DSI.COM>

In article <1991Apr24.030223.7753@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>Finally had time to track down a problem with C News and SCO Xenix 2.3.3.
>Symptom:
>
>relaynews takes 15+ cpu seconds to get started, then runs very fast
>thereafter.
>
>
>Reconfigured C-news to use the fake (supplied) strchr and its friends.
>
>Now it starts in .1 cpu seconds or less and works like a charm.
>
>Solution:
>If you are running SCO Xenix, tell build you don't have strchr and all
>of its friends even though you do.


Same advice if running SCO Unix 3.2 ?
Does using O'Keefe's strings library help?

Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341