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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Getting 5.9a working with WIN/TCP v3.2...
Message-ID: <20106@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 15:12:54 GMT
References: <6430@nigel.udel.EDU>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <6430@nigel.udel.EDU>, garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> 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.

The name should be NEWSVMSMAIL.C.  There is a logical name that some systems
use that conflicts with the NEWSMAIL name.  This change was announced on the
mailing list some time ago.

> 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.

NEWS V5.9 was developed under C Version 3.0, which has the missing #include
files. Even if you don't have C3.0 installed, you should be able to extract
the missing files from the distribution.

> 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?

MAILSHR.EXE is where the Callable Mail routines live under VMS 5.x.  To get
rid of this error, you will either need to upgrade to VMS 5.x or edit the
source to remove all calles to the Callable Mail routines.

> 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.

The problem isn't in the TWG software at all, it is just that you are on an
old VMS release.  If you can't get V5.9 working, you might get V5.8 from kuhub
and run it until you can put up VMS 5.x and C Version 3.0.  It works tolerably
well, and should eliminate the problems you are seeing. It should be possible
to get V5.9 working under VMS 4.7 if you keep at it.  If you need any more
help, let me know.
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