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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: cnews Date: 30 Mar 93 16:17:25 Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 25 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Mar30161725@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Mar28.001710.5222@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU's message of Sun, 28 Mar 1993 00:17:10 GMT >>>>> On Sun, 28 Mar 1993 00:17:10 GMT, galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) said: G> Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu G> In article <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> admerlev@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede) writes: >Hi, anybody ported cnews yet? >Thanx for any input. >Arnd > G> I just did this. I don't know if it has been done before or not G> though. It is actually pretty easy if you realize, like probably G> everybody except me has, that /bin/sh doesn't usually work. Get G> bash from somewhere and replace /bin/sh with bash and things G> will go _much_ smoother. G> There was a thread on this, I think in the development group, G> that I got this idea from. Just a warning, this is not always so. I had sh replaced with bash and when I tried to make install epoch it did not work, the make kept dying on a weird shell error, as soon as I put sh back to the original things worked fine. My philosophy is to put bash as sh only when I need it. -- Brett Lymn