Aucbarpa.920 net.news.b,net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mark Sun Feb 28 15:29:41 1982 2.0 release of B news The time has come - I am now posting the long awaited release of the B news software. The distribution itself is being posted, one article per file, to newsgroup net.sources. It is about 45 minutes worth at 1200 baud. In a bit I will post an article in net.news.b containing a shell script which will be useful for unpacking the distribution. If you consider yourself an adventurous site, you should install the distribution at once. Post any serious problems you find to net.news.b, preferably along with fixes. All fixes will be made on the master copy, and everyone should update their copy also, since I don't intend to post the whole thing again for a LONG time. The distribution will exist in tar image form on several sites in the file /usr/spool/uucp/uucppublic/newsdist.tar The tentative list of sites is chico, decvax, ucbvax, and src-unix. Barring any serious problems, other sites should begin installing it when it is clear that there are no more serious problems. (I'm not expecting any - after all, it has been tested on several sites, but a wider audience always generates additional bug reports.) I recommend that non-adventurous sites install it on or shortly after Wed, March 10, since I'll be out of town from the 4th to the 9th. Remember, if you are running a B news now, you have a prerelease, and you received that prerelease on the condition that you would throw it away and run the released version when it came out. If you are running A news, I also recommend that you convert to B. If you don't convert, the sudden rash of control messages will make for more work on your part. All of this distribution is expressly in the public domain. Here is the list of files making up the B news 2.0 distribution: ./README doc/ groups.mm howto.ms install.ms man/ checknews.1 inews.1 postnews.1 sendnews.8 expire.8 news.5 readnews.1 uurec.8 getdate.3 newsrc.5 recnews.1 misc/ Mail.diff adm dirform euuname.sh uucp.diff src/ Makefile.usg funcs.c inews.c process.c rparams.h Makefile.v7 getdate.y iparams.h readnews.c sendnews.c checknews.c header.c newsinstall.sh readr.c uname.c control.c header.h newsistall.sh recnews.c uurec.c defs.h help params.h rextern.c expire.c iextern.c postnews.usg rfuncs.c ftime.c ifuncs.c postnews.v7 rmgrp ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.