Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!gsm001!mailgsm From: gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Re: Repost of GNEWS release 1.01 almost out beta tes Message-ID: <3859124@mailgsm.mendelson.com> Date: 5 May 91 13:50:38 GMT Sender: news@mailgsm.mendelson.com (GNEWS Version 1.01b2 news poster.) Organization: GNEWS Development Center -- Philadelphia, Pa. Lines: 44 wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) wrote: > >hmm... i thought the folks that wrote cnews worked hard to get it to >run under the small model on the pdp-11 and xenix 286. there may be >places that no longer fit, but i would imagine that any work that was >done to make cnews work under the 64k limit would probably be accepted >for the official cnews release. > To set the record straight: most of the problems I encountered were porting cnews to ESIX UNIX sV.3.2d. It seems lots of things changed slightly. The problems I have had with porting stuff to Coherent, seem to be "mysterious" bugs. For example smail. The person who ported smail to coherent do a good job. Unfortuantely for me, he did not use the same options as I did. I found, and am still finding many bugs in smail. They seem to be in the original code, but the same code runs fine on my UNIX system. Some are fixed by fixstacking the module, he used 1000 hex (4k) I'm up to 2800 (10k). Some are fixed by moving arrays to the code segement, ahead of the "main()". Some just go away and come back later. I don't want to fall prey to the "if it ain't developed here it's ain't good" syndrome, but I see lots of stuff ported to coherent that just dosen't work. What I have tried to fix, seem to be things that should not fix these bugs, but they do anyway. Very strange. But to get back to GNEWS. It is developed and tested under Coherent. Any bugs found in GNEWS are placed there by the author :-). They are not supplied by the compiler or libraries. ------ Copyright (C) 1991, Geoffrey S. Mendelson. All Rights Reserved. Except for usenet followups, may not be reproduced without permsission. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Computer Software Consulting | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey S. Mendelson I've written and debugged almost eight thousand geoffrey@mendelson.com LINES of C code under Coherent in the last two mwcbbs!mailgsm!geoffrey months. :-) (215) 242-8712 And my wife still speaks to me!