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I've installed CNews on our Sun4/280 and I've installed the lastest trn
also.  Both work find on the local host newsserver.  Trn works fine (for
reading news anyway ... haven't tried posting) throughout the network
regardless of architecture.

My problem lies in the Cnew postnews replacement (replacing the Bnews
postnews).  The whole Cnews distribution mentions nary a word of how to
install in whole or in part in a heterogenous network.  E.g. postnews is
a script which I put in /usr/local/bin (which is mounted arch specific).
However is calls other things which are binaries and there seems to be
far too much hacking to install the Sun3 versions (let alone build them)
so they can be found.

What do other folks do out there?  Do you just reply on your newsreaders to
do the posting for you?  I've always just called postnews myself but maybe
that's now inefficient and no longer the accepted norm.  I'll be installing
NNTP here soon and the xrn (I think) newsreader too.  With all these updates
maybe I don't need to use the old tools at all but I'd some kind of new tool
to old tool comparison.  You can't take away my hammer, give me a toolbox
FULL of new tools, blindfold me, and expect me to find the tool that does job
of the hammer when it doesn't look or feel like a hammer anymore.

Any and all tips for installation and use of Cnews from Sun3/Sun4 network
admins will be most welcome.

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