Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:16:09 -0800
From: Geoff Collyer
To: Warren Toomey
Subject: Re: Resurrecting uucp and C News

I've attached a gzipped tar file of the files that I changed or added to site5
for the latest C News.  They should continue to work on 4.3bsd.  I left all the
intermediates in place in case you want to rebuild parts of it.

4.2's sh gets exit status wrong sometimes.  I tried compiling pdksh
and it seems to get them right, but it also runs out of file descriptors.
I think we used either a System V or V8 or V9 shell in real life, so didn't see
this problem.  The upshot is that some things like "make r" or "make setup"
in /usr/src/cmd/news fail.

I have left utstat's actual configuration files in /usr/lib/news/utstat for
reference.

I haven't done any transfers with uucp, but I think that stuff is all
pretty well documented (and I installed the manual pages).
I added "news" to /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and it owns all
of /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news*, at least.