Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS news and uucp?
Message-ID: <1740@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 87 22:27:44 GMT
References: <421@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <421@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>This may have been asked before, but I haven't seen it... we're interested
>in getting a binary of news 2.11 for VMS (specifically for a MicroVax II)
>and a means of transport over phone lines.

>The News 2.11 must be in use somewhere; there are defines for it in the
>source.  The main problem with source is that we will not have access to a
>'C' compiler....

I did the #ifdef VMS code in 2.11 news.  It doesn't run under plain
VMS; it requires Eunice, the Unix-on-top-of-VMS product from the
Wollongong Group (which comes with UUCP, by the way).  Strictly
speaking I should have written "#ifdef Eunice"...
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