Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!crackers!cpoint!frog!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: bnews/cnews available? Message-ID: <9105191314.05@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: 19 May 91 22:13:00 GMT References: <24822@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 29 In article don@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz (Don Stokes) writes: >nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes: > >> Cnews is available for Coherent - albeit an older version that works >> okay. I've successfully compiled and tested cnews, but have not >> yet gotten a feed. An older version of rn is also available. >> mwcbbs has Cnews - a 700+K tar file. Since the original poster >> was from Germany, it should be available on piggy, but I can't >> access piggy (even though I live 1/2 mile from it!) just yet. >> About Cnews and rn - just be prepared for LOTS of hard disk activity! The current version of Cnews for Coherent was made from September 1990 sources. I now have all the sources and patches to bring it up to the most current patch date. I have been waiting to see if there are any problems, before I start hacking away. >Hey, is anyone making this stuff available for those who don't have FTP >access? Downloading Cnews from mwcbbs would cost me more than Coherent >did! > >(I wonder if MWC have shares in the phone company? 8-) Try sending some email to rick@trystro.UUCP. He can give you the current stuff if you send him some floppies. My source directories aren't really in good shape for tarring up and compressing. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP