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Re: Is there a news system port?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Is there a news system port?
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 24 Jul 1998 15:30:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Thomas,
>Has anybody already ported a news system? With "news system" I mean Taylor
>UUCP, INN or CNEWS and TIN, maybe PINE or knews. Would be quite nice
>considering that there don't seem to be newsreaders which support UUCP for
>Windows.
I have "ported" Taylor uucp :))
*uucp-1.06.1*
-----------
- what is it?
- Ian Taylor's Unix to Unix copy: mail and news over modem lines.
This is the standard UUCP package of the Free Software Foundation.
- system
- Windows NT4 German / SP3
- preliminaries
- none
- configure
- works without changes
- make
- works without changes
- make install
- edit ./Makefile
- remove or comment out all the lines with "chmod" and "chown",
because they can't handle .exe extensions
- run "make install" as normal
- notes
- none
- package availability
- on ftp.franken.de
- in /pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
- as uucp-1.06.1-win32-bin.tar.gz
- or uucp-1.06.1-win32-bin.zip
- contributed by
- mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
You can see, why I said "ported". It compiles and installs nearly out of
the box. I use it for uucp over TCP, where it behaves exactly like on my
Linux box - no problem so far. I have never tested, though, if it will
work over a serial line.
Bye.
Michael.
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