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- From: ssanbeg@visual.spk.wa.us (Scott Sanbeg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Cnews and uucp?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.063906.12349@visual.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 06:39:06 GMT
- References: <kD87TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <1992Nov15.152237.28074@grebyn.com>
- Organization: The Visual Market - Spokane, WA
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- In article <1992Nov15.152237.28074@grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
- >In article <kD87TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen) writes:
- >
- >> Is there any thought of porting the cnews package and something
- >> like HDB or Taylor uucp over to OS/2? I currently run Waffle
- >> under a DOS session, and could not use UUPC since it does not
- >> (according to the docs I have) have any support for feeding other
- >> systems.
- >
- >I've thought of porting C-news, but a great deal of C-news is written
- >in Unix shell scripts; it would be a significant effort to port.
-
- Likewise, Taylor UUCP is written primarily for UNIX too - it would also
- be a non-trivial task to port over.
-
- Still, Waffle in a DOS session *forever*, though working fine, is
- a thought to shudder against. :)
- Scott
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