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From: lear@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU (eliot lear)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: NNTP vs. remote NFS mounts
Message-ID: <309@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:39:23 EST
Article-I.D.: aramis.309
Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:39:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 05:24:58 EST
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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To: dave@rsch.wisc.edu


Dave,

The problem of binaries is not that hard to get over.  Make inews
a link to a remotely mounted directory containing the appropriate
binaries.  For example:

On the Gould you could have the following:

	/usr/client/sun/inews
	/usr/client/vax/inews
	/usr/client/pyr/inews

	/usr/local/machine/inews (which, on the gould, would be its inews.)

The other systems would mount the appropriate /usr/client/??? as
/usr/local/machine.  /usr/lib/news/inews (and programs of that nature
could point to /usr/local/machine).  Note that this won't necessarily
solve byte order or word boundry problems for binary dbs but at least
alignment problems can be fixed with minor hackery...

					...eliot
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