B news under A/UX 2.0

[Bob Barker]

I'm trying to get B news 2.11.18 running on a Macintosh IIcx that was
just upgraded to A/UX 2.0 from 1.0.  News was working just fine under
1.0, but after the upgrade things stopped working - specifically
inews/rnews.  I recompiled and installed everything to no avail.

The symptoms are that the hourly unbatching of news via rnews -U
gives "inbound news is garbled batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/xxx"
where xxx is some part of the name of the batch in SPOOLDIR/.rnews
but not the full name.  The batches are not removed from SPOOLDIR/.rnews
and the articles are not unpacked into the spool directory anywhere.
The batches in SPOOLDIR/.rnews are valid.

I'm guessing that it has something to do with changes to the filesystem
that are part of A/UX 2.0 but I'm not sure.  I've tried compiling both
with and without DIRENT defined.  With it defined, rnews -U just hangs
(doesn't use CPU time, just sits there).

If anybody has gotten 2.11.?? running under A/UX 2.0 I'd love to hear
from you.  If its a matter of having the right localize.sh or if a patch
is necessary, please send it.  I'm beginning to tear my hair out!!!

Thanks!

-Bob
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