Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!skypod!marc
From: marc@skypod.guild.org (Marc Fournier)
Subject: cnews/wnews/rn
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.020348.20525@skypod.guild.org>
Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 02:03:48 GMT

Hi Folks...

	We just got ahold of Coherent 3.2 from MWC.  We got
a feed working perfectly for mail, but I want to extend it to
news also.  I logged onto piggy.ucsb.edu and tried to transfer
cnews.tar.Z and wnews.tar.Z but as soon as I got it onto my
computer, and uncompressed it and tried to untar it, it screwed
up.  The uncompressing worked no problem, but as soon as I untared
it, it really screwed up the file system.  All the files contained
the same thing and seemed to be links to the directory.  I don't
know what happened, since I've used tar many times before hand.

	First of all, is there anyone within local  calling distance
of Toronto (Thornhill) that has it for me to get a copy from?

	If not, then could someone please mail it to me uuencoded?

	Please, if you are going to mail it to me, mail me a message
saying that you will, so that I can:

	1) prepare my system for it,
	2) so that I don't  get a whole bunch of copies of it.

	Now, I   don't know which...cnews or wnews...is the better, 
or easier one to implement on Coherent, but I would like the one
that won't take me forever to get going.

	The last option...which really is the preferable one...is for
someone to explain to me why it screws up.  It is really easy for me
to download it from piggy through ftp, but it doesn't do me any good
if it screws up every time.  It does uncompress to a text format file
that is readable, so I'm downloading it   with the right protocols,
but tar doesn't seem to like it too much.  I guess as a last resort
I could manually untar the file, but it is over 200,000 bytes big and
would take a considerable amount of time.

	I sure hope someone out there can help me...*smile*

	Oh...one more thing...is there a better mail utility then
the one that comes with it..that works on Coherent??  I'm used to
elm, but fear that it is probably not easily ported, is it??

	Thanks again...

thanks...

Marc

Oh...my mailling address is marc@nautica.skypod.guild.org  ...not the
address in my signature file.  sorry, i know I have to change it.

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| Marc G. Fournier   (416) 250-8589  |   Haven't thought of anything  |
| Toronto, Ontario                   |     real witty to say here!    | 
|                                    ---------  And probably...       |
| uucp:  marc@skypod.guild.org               |          never will!   |