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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!shrike.und.ac.za!shrike.und.ac.za!meyer From: meyer@shrike.und.ac.za (Kevin Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: CNEWS and NetBSD: HELP!! Date: 6 Nov 1993 00:21:32 GMT Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2beqmc$71v@shrike.und.ac.za> References: <2be7mm$15v@shrike.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: shrike.und.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Kevin Meyer (meyer@shrike.und.ac.za) wrote: : I am having serious problems trying to get CNEWS to compile on our system, in : particular sed barfs during the "doit.bin" stage and seems unable to : correctly create the "../batch/Makefile" (and others), in fact it leaves me : with zero-length files! : Can anyone tell me how to fix the "subst" script file to work correctly, or : does anyone have CNEWS installed on their system? Ok, so the solution was to use "bash" instead of "sh", ok, so can ANYONE now tell me what "ctlfile" does, and where can I find the code that implements it?? Please? (Thanks, Carl, for the tip). -- This is not mine, I had nothing to do with it.