

README.linux for C-news 02/23/93 patchdate:
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This is the February 23, 1993 'Performance Release' of Cnews as configured for
Linux.  There's nothing fancy here.  Cnews's 'build' is pretty smart...

There's a working 'build.def' here.  To compile things you'll need to cd to
'conf' and type 'build'.  Answer yes when it asks you whether the previous
answers should be used as defaults.

There are two files that need patching to get this to compile under
Linux 0.99-10 with gcc2.3.3 and lib4.4 (lib/libc.h and expire/expire.c).
Both complain about a macro definition of atoi() or atol().  When running
doit.bin bombs, just comment the offending line or two out and restart
the 'doit.bin'.

[...it also runs just fine with Slackware 1.1.1...]

The patched doexplode is due to bash and gcclib problems.
Henry Spencer of Cnews fame says the offending code is in for
a rewrite in a future release...

						Vince Skahan
						vince@victrola.wa.com   

