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From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp,tor.news
Subject: Re: genat down with disk troubles (Lsuc problems too)
Message-ID: <1988Jan6.000342.19591@lsuc.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 88 05:03:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1988Jan6.000342.19591
Posted: Wed Jan  6 00:03:40 1988
References: <1988Jan5.011219.2676@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: C news fast but hard to install

In article <1988Jan5.011219.2676@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp writes:
>There's a lesson here for any other VAX-750-class machines (utzoo is a
>PDP-11/44 with 2 Eagles and 3Mb or 4Mb main memory) which don't process
>news during the day:  Switch to C news.  Soon.  It's no fun putting up
                                          ^^^^^
>news software when there's a gun (consisting of a rapidly-growing
>backlog) pointed at your disks (but it certainly does concentrate the
>mind! :-).  Thus endeth the advertisement.

So, despite Henry being a co-author of C news and utzoo being a
machine that really needed help, he wasn't even running it?
Maybe that explains why C news was so much "fun" to install.

The message that I have from clewis is that C news is rather
difficult to install.  From my (personal) point of view, not
having had to do the installation work, I say C news is great,
since it runs so much faster.  But unless/until you guys can
repackage it so it installs more easily (perhaps Chris can
give you some advice on that score), our Official Statement
to the world is: don't install C news unless you have lots
and lots of expert hacker time to spare.  Thus endeth the
comment to the advertisement.

David Sherman
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