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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: CNews Performance Release?
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:50:27 GMT
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I'm runnin an ancient (circa Aug 1991) release of Cnews at home.
The only problems I found were:
1) Punt the sh; it's small, and nice, but not quite compatible. I'm
using bash for everything now.
2) There appears to be some problem with awk and the floating point
emulation - I tried the patches, etc... but the problem was still
there. (Basically, the code in awk which truncates a floating
point value doesn't work with the floating point emulation package.)
I (eventually) punted on this one too and spent the $99.00 for
a co-processor.
3) In my ancient source there was an awk script bug, which has been
corrected in more recent versions, you should have no trouble.
4) There is no ftime() function, (it has been deprecated) you can steal
the one from the SysV emulation library and put it into libfake.
With these problems addressed, I was able to bring things up quite nicely.
In fact, I removed my old ISC box and replaced it with 386BSD for handling
all my mail and news (ponds.uucp). It has been handling a full news
feed for about 3 weeks now, with no major incident.
- Dave Rivers -
(rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
(sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
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