HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: tin
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: U. Munk's private BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:24:21 GMT

d10590@tanus.oz.au (Robert Chalmers) writes:
: Can someone give me some advice please on the file format of the files that
: are used by tin. There does not seem to be any indication in the docs of how
: to actually get the files into a working state. Also, assuming I have a site
: that will provide a news feed service, how do I actually get the 'incoming
: news fed in to tin'... any help much appreciated...
: Bob

Tin is only a news reader. You also need a news package like wnews or cnews
to get the news articles onto your system. And the news package comes
with docs of all the files, which makes it possible for an news reader
like tin, to read the news.
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From: root@kwcom.in-berlin.de (Olaf Matthaei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Help: Track Flagged Bad errors
Date: 12 Sep 92 09:56:54 GMT
Organization: Communication KWH Germany,KW

umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk) writes:
> root@kwcom.in-berlin.de (Olaf Matthaei) writes:
> 
> >This track flagged bad was killed after shutdown AND reboot.
> >My HD is a Kaloc 3100.
> 
> You have to use alternate disk polling, your HD controler isn't
> compatible. Either install Coherent from scratch and answer
> the question about alternate disk polling with yes, or ask
> support@mwc.com for a patch to switch from normal to alternate
> disk polling.

On COH 4.0.1 this ERROR was killed. It's a good   driver for 
IDE disks.


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From: jsm@n4vu.UUCP (John Miller - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Wnews works (almost)...need some hints...
Date: 7 Sep 92 00:05:06 GMT
Organization: Pan-Galactic Consulting
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu () writes:
: OK, I've finally gotten wnews to compile properly.  Thanks to
: everyone for all the tips!  Now I am faced with two hangups:
 
(first one deleted
 
: 2. When I get news batches from my feed, uux complains
:    that it cannot run rnews.  Just to be sure that it
:    wasn't a permissions problem I did a chmod a=rwx rnews.
:    That didn't improve things.  My newsfeed admin will
:    be tickled pink when this is fixed since he is getting
:    all the nastygrams from uux. :-)

Hmmm . . . sounds familiar.  I had a similar problem.  I *believe*
what fixed it was moving rnews to /bin instead of /usr/local/bin
where (I seem to recall) the wnews Makefile wanted to put it.  

And, make sure the owner and group of /usr/spool/news and its subs are 
news and news, chmod'd to 755 ('cept in.coming, which should be 750).  

OBTW, the perms that the Makefile set for rnews are 6555, and they're
working here.  

Best of luck, hope this works, and happy computing,
From: root@tbucks.com (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: wnews unbatch
Summary: problems w/ unbatch
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:50:46 GMT
Organization: tbucks.com (private bitty-box)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I am using wnews with tin. Outbound works fine. Inbound, rnews creates the
batches in /usr/spool/news/in.coming. unbatch is set to -r-sr-s---, owner
and group news. If I try to run unbatch, it says permission denied. If I 
su news unbatch (from /usr/lib/news) it says file not found. If I reset
unbatch to allow other execution, it runs and sends the in.coming files
straight into the bit bucket. Help
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: vannes@srzts304.alcatel.ch (Thomas van Nes)
Subject: tcsh on coherent?
Reply-To: thomas.vannes@alcatel.ch
Organization: Alcatel STR AG Switzerland
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:33:56 GMT

I can't live without tcsh! Anybody compiled it yet?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: landstry@tpki.toppoint.de (Michael Schack)
Subject: Help: freeze vs. compress
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:56:15 GMT

Hello,
is there someone out there who uses freeze on a coherent
system? I tried to port it but I'm not familiar with C yet...
:-(
When I try to compile it an error occurs (unknown short path
name...) and I can't handle this error...
bye,
micha...
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From: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Thoughts on porting software/tips...
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 08:55:31 EDT
Organization: Karls Emergency Mailbox

daler@Armstrong.EDU (Dale Reagan) writes:

....

>  
> Many of the so called 'ports' of USENET software have been lacking in 
> consistency/quality.  They have really (mostly) been 'hacked up' to work unde
> Coherent and not 'ported' (i.e. many features do not work as they should or 
> work poorly(i.e. the CNEWS port) I [previously] suggested that you (since you
> guys are supposed to really know your product) supply your user base with a 
> short introductory guide to porting USENET type software to Coherent.  I neve
> got a response on this so I can only speculate that it was tossed the last 
> time... Yes, I have had some success with small ports to Coherent, but I thin
> that it had to do with the simplicity of the programs.  It would be great if 
> Coherent user could take something posted to comp.sources.unix and just 'make
> it'... 

Wonderful, just what I think. We have a great potential here on line and
it could be an example of what distributed working means.

I am ready to test your ports and report errors if something goes wrong. So
finally, after some trials, we should be able to setup fine ports, ready to 
run for newcomers.

If you need a hint where to start first, my vote goes for CNEWS. Then a
newsreader (TIN). And then a mailer ELM (I forgot to say: my main interest
is obviuosly Coherent 4.0. The limitations of 3.x are too strong that I would
believe it makes only limited sense to think about porting software to
3.x).

Sincerely
Karl

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: newsfeed appeal for help
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 10:09:14 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow) writes:

> tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
> 
> ....
> 
> > Note to mwc- I would gladly have paid 50% more for a Coherent that 
> > had a newsfeed/reader as a part of it.
> 
> I fully agree!!!

Send me US$50 + $20 p+p and I'll send you a disk(s) with a working binary
kit containing C News and rn, correctly compiled for your machine. I promise
a turnaround time of no more than 1 week upon receipt of your cheque.

Are you sure you're willing to pay it?

						 - k
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From: umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Tass; libndir.a not coff?
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:35:14 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

ben@bailey.UUCP (Ben Bailey) writes:

>My install of 4.0 went fine; wish I could say the same for rebuilding
>gnews!   Finally hacked it to working.  

>However, Tass seems goofy.  It had always worked great before.  In
>trying to build it, the linker complains that the /usr/lib/libndir.a
>isn't coff format, then exits code 256.

Delete /usr/lib/libndir.a and remove -lndir from the Makefile.
Coherent 4.0 comes with the POSIX directory functions in libc.a

Also I would suggest to forget tass under 4.0. Get tin from MWCBBS,
it's a follow up of tass and much much better.
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From: alheid@PITTPA.CRAY.COM (Greg Alheid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re:  Odd errors intermittent on install of 4.0.1
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:31:46 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Bill,

 you write,
>
   {deletd stuff}
>
> I get the following error most of the time:
>
>    Panic: Parity error  CS=18   IP=FFC10693  (or 0695 or 133B)
>

   {more deleted stuff}

> ...    Help?
>
> Please?

  Well this is a hardware error. My "first guess" is that one of your
SIMMs is failing. Since the failing address ends in 3 or 5 or B, an odd
address, it is one of two SIMMs for bits 8-15(+p). But which two of the
four SIMMs handle those bits?

 My suggestions are:

 1) Label each SIMM, A, B, C, D.  It will help you keep track of
    which SIMM is which.

 2) Make sure that each SIMM is seated correctly in its socket.

  Test, if it runs correctly you are done, if not then:

 3) Since you have "two banks of SIMMs", remove the 2nd bank (pair)
    of SIMMs and run with only 2 Meg.

  Test, if it runs correctly, one of the two "2nd bank" SIMMs
  is suspect, goto 4.
  If the system still fails, one of the two "1st bank" SIMMs
  still in the system is suspect, goto 5.

 4) System runs, so install "2nd bank" SIMMs for "1st bank" SIMMs.

  (We are expecting the system to fail.)
  Test, and if the system does fail use one of the "1st bank" SIMMs
  to swap out one of the installed "2nd bank" SIMMs one at time until
  the suspect SIMM is found.

  If the system runs correctly with 2 Meg no matter what,
  the possibilities are:

      1) Install 4 Meg again, and change order of chips and to
           see ifyou can get failing address to change:
           SIMMs were in sequence ABCD, try BCDA, CDAB, etc
           and try to isolate the problem that way.
      2) MAKE sure that all four SIMMs are the same speed and
          if that doesn't help get four SIMMs are made by the
          same manufacturer.
      2) Could be a bad SIMM socket.
      3) Could be a bad motherboard.
         (and see last comment under 5.)

 5) System failed, so swap out one of the installed "1st bank" SIMMs
     one at time using one on the "1st bank" SIMMs until the suspect
     SIMM is found.

    If the system still fails with 2 Meg, no matter what.
    I would say that there is a memory timing problem with
    the motherboard that "only" Coherent can force. Sorry.


Hope this helps and let me know what happens,

Greg
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: still having uuxqt problems (need help)
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:37:54 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

Hmmm, I think I've totally messed up the permission of some vital
file.  Now rnews and rmail are not called by uuqxt so all my mail
and news is piling up in my /usr/spool/uucp/feedsite folder.  The
permissions file is OK, but uuxqt doesn't even seem to start up
after uucico finishes transfers.  Is this a common problem?
I'm in a bit of a bind now with about 2 megs of news and mail
stuck in limbo.  Any advice?

Cheers,

Chris
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: news, new groups, and bounced mail
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:40:37 GMT
Organization: U. Munk's private BBS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu () writes:
: > I *highly* recommend reading the wnews manual, although it is a little
: > work.
: 
: I would LOVE to do this, but I cannot find it anywhere!

This is the third time, that I write this:
I've hacked the manuals, so that they can be formated under Coherent.
Then I sended all the docs to MWC, if you get WNEWS from MWCBBS it
should include a lot of documentation, which is really needed,
to understand the WNEWS system. Where did you get your WNEWS
distribution without the docs?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: klovatt@generic.uucp (Keith Lovatt)
Subject: Re: smail blues
Organization: Terra*Net Public Access Unix BBS.  (416) 731-{3468,9867}, 237-0308
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:54:14 GMT

kwfriber@mtu.edu (Kenberg Frieth) writes:

>mtu.edu  mtu.edu!%s  ???

>where I forget now what the third field is and the fields are separated
>by spaces.

I had a problem like this some time ago. The problem is the fields should be
tab-delimited (at least between 2nd and third fields). As soon as I put the
tabs in, I had no further problems.

Keith.
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Need documentation for Wnews
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:10:52 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

Does anyone have the complete distribution for wnews?  I have gotten
various parts of it to work, but I'd like to have the manual so I
can properly set up the sys file.  As it stands now, all incoming
batches are dumped into "junk".  

Thanks,

Chris
From: root@tbucks.com (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Waffle BBS on Coherent...
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:16:21 GMT
Organization: tbucks.com (private bitty-box)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
: I haven't gotten any response to this question on comp.bbs.waffle, so I figure
: I'll try over here where the Coherent folks hang out:
: 
: Has anyone compiled/run Waffle 1.65 under Coherent successfully?  I'm currently
: running Waffle for DOS, and would dearly love to switch over to Coherent...
: 
: 
: 
: >Edward J. Branley         elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us<
: >Seashell Software, Metairie, LA            +1-504-455-5087<
: 
I don't know if anyone has ported WAFFLE to Coho, but have you considered
running a straight newfeed, or do you need W for your bbs?
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan)
Subject: newsfeed (what else)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:57:03 GMT

I am very discouraged and in despair about ever getting a newsfeed. 
I've been spending about thirty hours a week on this; if I had any 
idea of the difficulty involved.. Oh, mwc, why don't you provide us 
w/ a working newsfeed, a simple one like the mail system provided?
 
With help from kilroy@acme.gen.nz I have several of the makes 
finished in cnews. /libc/make will not work because "NOFILE 
redefined". Does anyone know how to fix this? I just took it out of 
the makefile and /input then compiled> Is this gonna work?
 
Now I am on /expire, /relay, /batch, and /misc. These will not 
compile w/o libdbm.a which I cannot get! I got sdbm.Z from raven, a 
file 90955 bytes long, mking sure to use binary transfer, and core 
dumped when I tried to uncompress. a file I got at the same time, 
cnewsp1.tar.Z worked. I tried to get the files from mwcbbs, but as 
others know their BBS is broken.
 
Look, I just want a leaf site. I'll get my newsgroups from _one_ 
host, and only feed back those postings I make. Can _anyone_ 
provide me with something that _I_ can make work? I work 40 hours a 
week as a controller; I don't have the energy to become a C guru 
and script expert. I just want to read the net.
 
Thanx,
 
Timothy.
 
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: PETM@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de
Subject: Re: e: Raven to carry new MWCBBS files
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU CLAUSTHAL
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:57:19 GMT

But where are the files ??? I can't find them at raven !
From: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:56:39 GMT
Organization: Cameron Park, CA

karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow) writes:
> oroger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes:
> 
> ....
> 
> > Okay...
> > 
> > I just spent a good deal of time getting all of GNEWS ported to
> > work on Coherent 4.0.1.  It is a lot faster than the 286 version
> > and I have kicked up the number of newgroups to 1024 (user
> > configurable) and the length of the news.group.name to 60 (also
> > user configurable).  I use TASSgn to read and It works great
> > under 386 and is fast.  Yet all of this code is very small.
> > 
> 
> My need is for a news system, which is also capable of serving other sites.
> Is that possible with GNEWS? I actually follow news (since months) with
> the WAFFLE Newsreader under DOS. So this is a statement AGAINST any
> Coherent Newsreader! I did not spend 1/10 of the time I actually spent
> for unseccesfull attempts with a Newssystem under Coherent.
> 
> Karl

I use my version of GNEWS to feed other sites with no problems. 

On another note.  I missed the GNEWS flame war...  But GNEWS is still
up and running on 4.0.1 (after considerable debugging and rewriting of
code).  I have uploaded it to MWCBBS along with TASS and COMB148.  If
MWC chooses not to put it in the downloads, that is their choice.

Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk)
Subject: Re: MWC BBS Etc.
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:35:04 GMT

glallen@keurgraad.witchcraft.com (Gordon Lee Allen) writes:

>>No, MWC doesn't give out news feeds.  Have you gone through the UUCP
>>maps to find sites in your area?

>How do you request the latest maps?  I've downloaded one from
>Compuserve, but I don't know how recent or accurate it is.  Is
>there a clearing house for these?

You'll find the latest maps always in comp.mail.maps.

>>There are 3 news agents and 2 news readers on mwcbbs.

>I'm a neophyte to this, I assume a news agent just gathers the news
>you want and the reader puts it together in an organized manner so
>that you can easily reply?  I've downloaded RN and SDBM, but there

You are right. Working agents are cnews and wnews, for a beginner I
would suggest wnews, it's much easyer to install.

>seemed to be a problem at the time...I don't remember exactly what
>it was.  Which do you recommend (filename) and does it work with
>version 4.0?

The newsreaders which works fine under 4.0 are tin and nn.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: ayub@krypton.Stanford.EDU (Ayub Butt)
Subject: Coherent on IBM
Organization: Stanford School of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:52:13 GMT

Hi netters

I am thinking about installing Coherent on an IBM PS/2 35 sx. This
model has AT style bus.

I have heard conflicting views about this and I would like to find out
if anyone has successfully installed Coherent 4.0 on such machine.

I would appreciate if you can send e-mail to me because I don't have
regular access to the news.

Thanks so much

Ayub Butt
Lane Medical Library
SUMC.Stanford.CA.USA
From: root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: keyboard
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:55:36 GMT
Organization: tbucks.com (private bitty-box)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: root@tbucks.com (Superuser) writes:
: : I can understand why some keyboards may give problems w/ Coho. I don't
: : understand though why, for example, the page up/down key will work with
: : micro-emacs, but not with vi. Ideas?
: 
: Yes, because the keys are not defined in /etc/termcap for ansipc. Me is
: a terminfo application, and so it works. Here es my enhanced termcap
: entry:

Thank you, Udo, for that enlightenment. I had the idea that termcap was
there just because it had been in Coho 3.* and didn't realize that some
applications used only that. Maybe now I can get the arrow keys to work
from the command line!

Well, I just tried it. I moved the line beginning kP to the end of the
ansipc termcap description, deleting the backslant and adding a \ to the
line above. Then I rebooted. The arrow keys still don't work properly from
the command line, instead making a beep and the capital letters A, B, C,
and D. I don't need to compile this, do I, like terminfo?

Other keys I would like to work are the home, end, page up and down keys.

Timothy.
From: umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Elm, Minicom and Xmail
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:41:06 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

Bret.Johnson@p1.f1110.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bret Johnson) writes:

>I have enjoyed seting up some new programs with 4.0.1.....

>But I have a few questions:

>1. ELM..

>    sh Configure
>      ... Checking Kit ...
>    AWK syntax error
>    terminating

Configure doesn't run with Coherents sh. I didn't know which distribution
you have, in mine port I leave everything so, that `make install'
runs through. Take a look at the README files, there you may find
some hints, not to run Configure.

>     Plus, I can not find TBL to format the man pages and doc's

Coherent comes without tbl. some time ago I tried to find a freeware
tbl, but with little success only. GNU's groff comes with a tbl, but
unfortunateley it's written in c++, and I don't have a compiler yet.
However, tbl isn't needed for the man pages, only for the user guides.
My distribution of elm contains the user guides as postscript files,
which looks really nice. If someone can't print postscript files,
I'm willing to send her/him the printed guides. This are ~100 pages
and you have to pay the snail mail transport.

>    Whats going on here?  I can nto do a make either...

>2. Minicom..

>    Logged in as me (Bret)

>    minicom -c on
>     Cannot creat lockfile. sorry

>   But, I can run it logged in as root..

>   What do I need to do?
>     

Did you `make install'? The makefile should set permissions and
setuid/setgid properly. Type chmog 4511 root bin /usr/local/bin/minicom
and it should run.
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