Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site axiom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!axiom!smk From: smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.wanted Subject: Re: wanted: B news for 68000 system Message-ID: <498@axiom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 13:19:31 EST Article-I.D.: axiom.498 Posted: Thu Feb 23 13:19:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 01:37:11 EST References: <4090@gatech.UUCP> Organization: Axiom Technology, Newton MA Lines: 22 If you take 2.10.1 news and the few fixes that have gone out since it was introduced, news will run on a 68000. The snoopy site here is a 68000 news site that I used mainly to test a port. You should make sure that 1) the C library works OK, like allowing the + in "r+", and that you have a good(any one made within this year seems good enough) -- note the bugs I found in net.bugs. There was one small compile problem in virtterm.c (for vnews) that was due to a compiler problem I found, but the fix (to virtterm.c, not the compiler unfortunately) was easy. If your compiler is different than ours, try locating instructions like: movb a?, where ? is 0 to 7. These are illegal on the 68000 and some compilers may not catch them. One other thing is that if you are cross compiling (especially on 4.2), remember to include headers for the port and NOT for 4.2 along the way. I got burned more than once on different FILE size in and different stat in . -- --steve kramer {allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!axiom!smk (UUCP) linus!axiom!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)