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From: plocher@puff.wisc.edu (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Netnews on IBM-AT running Xenix? (longish)
Message-ID: <193@puff.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 00:25:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: puff.193
Posted: Sun Sep 21 00:25:39 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Sep-86 18:44:21 EDT
References: <6158@sun.uucp> <255@c3pe.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher)
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: Xenix netnews
Summary: Experiences I had...

In article <255@c3pe.UUCP> lenn@c3pe.UUCP (D. Glenn Arthur Jr.) writes:
>In article <6158@sun.uucp>, (Don Jackson) writes:
>> ... get netnews up and running on an IBM-AT running Xenix...
>I have a similar question.  I have been trying to get news to compile
>on an Intel 310 running Xenix 286 3.0, without success.  Any clues?

I have Xenix 2.00 (Microsoft) on an AT, and B-news 2.10.{2,3}...
  Microsoft does not provide (doccument?) a way for the user to fill
in the fields returned by uname().  If you define XENIX, the news sw
assumes a working uname(), not their replacement code.
  The code in pathinit.c(AllocCpy()) does not seem to work - I get
segmentation faults when it is called - use strdup() instead of AllocCpy()
  The C compiler (Microsoft) only allows 10 -DDEFINE items on the
cc command line.  Put as many -Dindex= like defines as you can into
a .h file and #include it in all the .c files.
  The compress program won't work as is on the 286 processor and Xenix
cuz of 64K segment limits... There is a hacked version which runs
with MicroPort's SYS-V product, though.
  With the above, news compiles, but inews STILL core dumps.

    I'm stuck at this point, too

  I am considering upgrading from Xenix to MicroPort's SYS-V for
the AT - I know someone who uses netnews on it who said it 'made'
with no modifications to anything other than compress.

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	John Plocher