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Article #3307Re: can C-news and mail be distributed in binary form ?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:09
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:09
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In article <1992Nov10.213219.951@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>I'm interested in whether it's theoretically possible, assuming
>some standard setup (directory structure, domainized headers, etc.)
>to come up with a binary-only distribution of C-news, newsreaders,
>and 'elm'.
There should be no problem with C News if you're willing to settle on
a standard setup for things like the directory names. They need to be
compiled in, but most other things (e.g. host name) don't.
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Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.readers,comp.mail.elm Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: can C-news and mail be distributed in binary form ? Message-ID: <BxKo8C.5Ds@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:09:47 GMT References: <1992Nov10.213219.951@victrola.sea.wa.us> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12