Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: Scary Thought ... Message-ID: <361@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 01:33:23 EST Article-I.D.: van-bc.361 Posted: Fri Mar 13 01:33:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 06:59:52 EST References: <919@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV> <863@maynard.BSW.COM> <678@brl-sem.ARPA> <206@atelabs.UUCP> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 23 Xref: utgpu comp.mail.uucp:319 news.admin:239 In article <206@atelabs.UUCP> cds@atelabs.UUCP (David Shanks) writes: >In article <678@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes: >>Right, and so far, people are still working on getting news up on >>a IBM-PC running UNIX, the DOS port is probably farther away. > >Actually, it's fairly easy to put news (and rn) up on an IBM-PC running >Unix. I'm posting this followup from just such a system. > Sure is. I feed just such a site. His only problem is his 40MB of disk keeps overflowing from the full feed. And I have to use -b12 with compress or his uncompress time goes WAY up :-). The interesting part is, he fan's some stuff out past him to other smaller pc type sites :-). FYI he is running IBM Xenix, IBM AT (6Mhz), 2MB RAM, 40MB disk. Standard 2.11 news, 4.3 rn. -- Stuart Lynne ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532