From: htoaster@yabbs To: all@yabbs Subject: Yabbs Clients Date: Wed Jan 26 00:33:05 1994 There are lots of binary yabbs clients available now for ftp from this machine. They are the same as the client that you use here, and will automatically connect to this server, so they should appear almost exactly alike (but lots quicker, esp if you are coming into this machine over a slow link or from far away). They will also reduce the system load on my machine by a lot, so if you can run a client, please do. You can get them from anonymous ftp to this machine (phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu or 128.2.111.111) in /pub/yabbs/clients. The clients also let you use any editor that you want for editting messages, instead of the internal one, and any pager for use in talk. The current systypes there are: NetBSD, Linux, Ultrix, SunOS (Sparc), and HPUX (PA). In the next few days there will probably be additional clients for: Dec Alpha, IBM RT (AOS/BSD), and AIX (RS/6000). You can also compile your own client with the sources in /pub/yabbs/yabbscli.tar.gz. Here is a copy of the README contained in /pub/yabbs/clients: ----- This directory contains execuatables for the yabbs text client for various common system types. You should just be able to grab the appropriate one and use it. If your system type isn't here, you can try to compile the client yourself, the sources are in "../yabbscli.tar.gz". If you successfully port it to a common system, please let us know so that we can include it here as well. If you have any problems with these clients, please notify both and the person indicated below who compiled the client and include as much information as possible about what the problem is and the exact setup of the system you were trying to run it on. The client will use whatever you have your EDITOR environment variable set to as your editor and whatever your PAGER environment variable set to as your pager. By default the editor is set to /usr/bin/vi and the pager is /usr/local/bin/less. ==== Current yabbs client binaries: hpuxHP-UX leda.cc.cmu.edu A.09.01 A 9000/715 2007423782 Kelly DeYoe 940125 linuxLinux dhp.com 0.99.14o #1 Mon Jan 17 21:50:34 EST 1994 i386 Alex Wetmore 940125 netbsdNetBSD nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu 0.9 NINE#3 i386 Kelly DeYoe 940125 sun4SunOS yuma.hss.cmu.edu 4.1.3 7 sun4c Kelly DeYoe 940125 ultrixULTRIX deneb.weh.andrew.cmu.edu 4.2 0 RISC Kelly DeYoe 940125 ---- htoaster