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From: garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
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Subject: Getting 5.9a working with WIN/TCP v3.2...
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Date: 18 Dec 89 22:15:37 GMT
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Is there anybody else out there using ANU NEWS v5.9a with WIN/TCP v3.2?

I have recently FTPed the sources and such for v5.9a of NEWS from
kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (applied the SLP patches to all the files that had SLPs
for them in the 5.9a SHARE file) and have run into some problems getting
everything rebuilt.  (We're running VMS v4.7, and the .EXEs in the 
news_v59a_dist saveset are for v5.0, thus the need to rebuild) Granted,
the instructions regarding special mods for WIN/TCP are very sketchy, so maybe
I've overlooked something.  But at any rate, here's how far I've gotten on my 
own:

The first curious thing about this, is that I downloaded the news_v59_build
saveset, which supposedly had the up-to-date .OBJs and .OLBs in it, but I
guess that since I applied the patches to bring the 5.9 sources up to 5.9a
NEWSBUILD thought that it had to recompile everything.

The NEWSBUILD command procedure was looking for a source file by the name of
NEWSVMSMAIL.C and there wasn't one.  There was a file called NEWSMAIL.C, so
I edited NEWSBUILD to use that file instead.

There were several files that had #includes in them that weren't being
resolved properly, so I fixed those up, too.  There is still one file,
NEWSSITE.C, that has an unresolved #include for 'uaidef'  The closest thing
I could find to this one was a file called 'uafdef' in the
twg$tcp:[netdist.include.vms] directory, but when I changed the '#include
uaidef' to '#include uafdef' there was an error about an undeclared structure
so I assume that this isn't the right file.

Also, there is an error when linking the program that the linker couldn't find
the file: SYS$LIBRARY:MAILSHR.EXE  Now, there is a file called WIN_MAILSHR.EXE
in SYS$LIBRARY and I assume this is the sharable image of the WIN/TCP mailer
or the interface to it.  How can I get the NEWSBUILD stuff to use this,
assuming that this is what I really want to do?

After looking through the documentation for the program, this definitely looks
like it would be just what we need in the way of NETNEWS software, I'm just
hoping that I can get it to work at this stage.  Thanks in advance for any
advice (other than ditching TWG, it isn't _that_ bad, is it? ;-) you all might
be able to give me.

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