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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!concert!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: cnews Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <C50u6v.Aux@unx.sas.com> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 17:35:19 GMT References: <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Mar28.001710.5222@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 35 In article <1993Mar28.001710.5222@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) writes: >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 >> > ... > >The other problem that I ran into is a missing ftime() call in the >386bsd os. Again, I am pretty clueless about this issue and have >no idea what is really supposed to happen with this, but I just >rewrote the call using gettimeofday(). The ftime() structure is >located in /usr/include/sys/timeb.h. I just wrote a simple function >to fill in that structure using the (newer?) structures for gettimeofday(). > In the BSD emulation routines for building cnews under a Sys V box (part of the cnews distribution) is a clone of the ftime() function. It works fine with 386BSD. > > ... > >john >galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu > - Dave Rivers - (sastdr@unx.sas.com) (rivers@ponds.uucp) -- UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express