Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aux:5025 news.software.b:8456 Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!yale.edu!ox.com!umich!sharkey!wa8tzg!wwm From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) Subject: Re: Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.220016.740@wa8tzg.mi.org> Organization: What, ME Organized? References: <1991Jun23.132007.10674@panix.uucp> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 22:00:16 GMT In article scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: > >>Also, quite interestingly, I've discovered that egrep seems to be _much_ >>slower than grep at doing this. res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) first mentioned >>that this was true on a Unix-PC, and it's true on Macs as well. Perhaps it's >>System V-dependant? Or is this just a special case where egrep is unusually >>slow? > >It's something horrible in some versions of sysV egrep. On a UNIX-PC >some C-News scripts simply will not run due to grep/egrep problem. I >strongly recommend getting GNU grep/egrep and replacing the 3b1 grep >with them. If AUX has the same problem, a similar fix applies. >-- > "If we don't provide support to our users someone is bound to > confuse us with Microsoft." > -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki Hmmm. On MY late-model ;-) 3B1 (one of the last) under both 3.51a and 3.51m I've had NO particular problems with C-News. Never modified any scripts, never replaced any code. Just plain ol' C-News. Of course, I don't try to get a FULL feed here, just 40-50 groups :-) -- Bill Meahan (WA8TZG) | I taught my daughter's cat a trick!! wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org OR | I say to her, "Velcro! Ignore me." uunet!mailrus!sharkey!wa8tzg!wwm | And she DOES!! For hours at a time!! "Home for Cybernetic Orphans" | What a smart cat.