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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.readers Subject: Re: mthreads for trn (FreeBSD) Date: 24 Jun 1996 17:04:47 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4qmhrf$mv3@helena.MT.net> References: <4qfgj2$17s_002@mypc.neosoft.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22097 news.software.readers:28122 [ Emailed to posted as well as posted ] In article <4qfgj2$17s_002@mypc.neosoft.com>, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: >This looks like just the thing to cure my problem with trn and its excessive >rereading of the remote active file. Only problem is, I'm not good at this >porting business. I downloaded the mthreads-3.1.tar.gz, tried to install >it, but I get a compile error. Seems mthreads.c is calling "setpgrp", >whereas the FreeBSD libraries have replaced this routine with "setpid". Umm, what version of FreeBSD are you using. I've got setpgrp() on my 2.1R box. :) And, I don't think mthreads is going to help you since it's for threading a news directory which doesn't use the new style threads. TRN used to use it's own 'propriatary' format, but switched to the standard format long ago. If you're using NNTP to read your news, *make* sure your remote site supports Overview support and compile trn to use it. You'll still have to download the thread files, but you won't have to thread on the fly. Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!