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From: vrs@littlei.UUCP (Vincent R. Slyngstad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: How to get readnews working...
Message-ID: <156@uvrs.littlei.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 20:01:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvrs.156
Posted: Mon Sep  7 20:01:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Sep-87 00:55:51 EDT
References: <427@polyslo.UUCP> <149@uvrs.littlei.UUCP> <391@devon.UUCP>
Organization: Intel Corp., ISO Systems Development, Hillsboro, OR
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Keywords: news xenix rn

In article <391@devon.UUCP>, paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) writes:
> In article <149@uvrs.littlei.UUCP> vrs@.UUCP (Vincent R. Slyngstad) writes:
> > In article <427@polyslo.UUCP>, mdella@polyslo.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
> > > I am running an Intel 286 box (310/311 if anyone knows the peticulars) and
> > > have Xenix R3.4 running currently on it. I just got copies of the news
> > > programs (2.10.3) but cannot get them to compile correctly at all. Has
> > > anyone created a localize.sh for this peticular configuration (or any
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> > 
> > Here is the localize.sh that we use on the sources for our
> > XENIX box.  The news sources are as they were distributed
> > over the net with patches 1 thru 5 applied.
[ all of localize.sh deleted to save space ]
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> 
> [ By the way: I wish people would remember that there are many different
>   Xenix's out there.  IE: sizeof(xenix_universe) != sizeof(xenix_v_286).
I agree about XENIX versions; the thing that I left unstated was that I
work for Intel and use Intel XENIX 3.4 extensively.  I would have let the
original article pass like all the others, were it not for my familiarity
with exactly the version of XENIX in question, and my knowledge that that
version of XENIX was running news on my box at work.

> By the way (again): Marcos said he was trying to get news 2.10.3 running
> on his Intel box, and Vincent sent his localize.sh for news "as distributed
> over the net".  Since the only news software ever posted was version 2.11,
> I am assumming that Vincent is running ver 2.11 (patchlevel 5, as he
> stated), so the localize.sh he sent to Marcos my not work as advertised
> (for Marcos, at least!).
You are correct; we run 2.11 patch level 5, not 2.10.3 (my mistake).  Some
changes may be required for 2.10.3 news (which I had working, but junked
some time ago in favor of a colleague's 2.11 binaries).  As with any freebie,
you risk getting what you paid for :-).
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Vincent R. Slyngstad
UNIX Evaluation Engineering
Intel Corporation (littlei!vrs)