Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!encore!paradis
From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: A news reader was posted to comp.sources.unix
Message-ID: <2677@encore.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 15:13:58 GMT
References: <1851@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company
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In article <1851@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>
>There was a news reader program posted to comp.sources.unix a couple of days
>ago.  After the tty driver gets fully debugged, there may be lots of interest
>in reading news directly on MINIX.  Anybody interested in taking a look at
>this news reader and evaluating its potential for MINIX?

Believe me, Andy... a news *reader* program is going to be the easiest part
of doing news under MINIX!  I've been looking into this (after all, one of the
major reasons I got into MINIX in the first place was the fact that I wanted
to do news on my home computer).  I brought the sources for 2.11 news over to
my machine, and it took me several hours just to get the damn MAKEFILE to
work!  Seems as though MINIX make does not allow you to define a macro in terms
of another macro.  Thus, if you have the following in a makefile:

	FOO = BAR
	BAZ = ${FOO}

then BAZ takes on the value "${FOO}" rather than "BAR".  It's going to be a
while before we'll see news on MINIX (tho I'm working on it...)

BTW - my machine IS currently up and running as a mail site.  If anyone wants
to e-mail to a MINIX machine, you can send it to "...decvax!encore!jrpmnx!paradis".
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