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From: alan@numm.nu.oz (Alan Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: newses
Message-ID: <1990Feb6.231046.8588@numm.nu.oz>
Date: 6 Feb 90 23:10:46 GMT
References: <648@enorm.eb.se> <1990Feb3.222301.24047@utzoo.uucp> <42J1N8Cxds13@ficc.uu.net> <1990Feb5.173359.9094@utzoo.uucp>
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Organization: University Computing Services, University of Newcastle, Oz.
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In article <1990Feb5.173359.9094@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <42J1N8Cxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>Yes, and installing CNEWS on anything that's not close to System V or BSD
>>is like having a root canal...
>
>We've had plenty of reports of it going up with minimal pain on systems
>that we know are pretty impure. :-)  Peter's experience seems to have
>been unusual.

hmmm, anyone who thinks that my v7 is anything like a "standard" BSD or Sys V
should think again. The only hassles i had got ironed out in the alpha test
(ie global scope on struct members & identifiers unique in first 7 bytes).

i'm VERY happy with it, and now have almost no trouble reinstalling after
updates.

i've redirected followups to news.software.b, where they really belong.

alan.
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