Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: HHEELLLPPP!!! (BNEWS3.0) Message-ID: <495@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 14 Feb 90 04:34:28 GMT References: <17@robecdc.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 17 In article <17@robecdc.UUCP> ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) writes: | Somewhere I've overlooked the obvious. Bnews3.0 appears to compile without a | great deal of problems. testdir seems to function without complaint. However, | none of the news programs can open /usr/lib/news/history. The problem has to | be in cranking up the POSIX libraries, but I'll da**ed if I can see it. I had it running here for a bit, but went to 2.11 when I rebuilt the disk. No problems, I just didn't want to maintain more versions than I must. It was developed on Xenix so there should be a combination of option to make it work unless the people who are checking BSD compatibility have broken the Xenix/SysV side. I'm not claiming they have, just suggesting one possibility. -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon