From: Vince Skahan (vince@halcyon.com)
Date: 07/14/92


From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: C-news on 096c/gcc2.2.2 seems to work...
Date: 14 Jul 1992 06:11:08 GMT

I have the end-of-1991 version of C-news compiled and running locally
here with 096c and gcc 2.2.2 and it sure seems to work fine
(and in fact waaaaaay faster than the $25,000 workstation at work).

This is the current version, without the May-92 'optional speedups'.

For newsreading, I have tin1.1pl4 and/or waffle 1.65b10 running and
everything is acting perfectly.

Can anybody tell me if the past reported problems with fseek() in
old versions of gcc are now fixed ? I have C-news configured to
use their fast dbz package, but I'm not using their replacement stdio
stuff. I don't want to turn on the newsfeed if the history file is
going to either get wasted or not work.

As I recall, the only thing I had to edit in the code was to hard-code
the max number of open files to 20 in libc/closeall.c - I got that
guesstimate from limits.h (is that right?)

Lastly, if nobody's done so, I'd be happy to provide by build.def
as a template config file folks could use. You should be able to
basically edit the hostname/pathnames and run build.

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          Vince Skahan                          vince@halcyon.com (here)
    vince@atc.boeing.com (work)             vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)