Problems installing news on a Model/80

[Cary W. FitzGerald]

I'm posting this for a friend:  please respond to him.  Thanks.

I am attempting to bring up the news software (2.11) on an
IBM PS/2 running SCO XENIX 2.2.3.  This is a 386 based machine.
Everything seems to compile ok, but when rnews is run from cron,
every time, inews sends mail to news indicating that "inbound
news is garbled".  I have tried 2.11 with all 17 patches, without
the patches and other combinations in between.  No matter what
I do, I get the same result.  I recently brought up the same
software on a Convergent Technologies machine without any
problems, but that experience doesn't seem to help me here.  If
there is anyone out there that has done this before, please
email or phone me (I'm starting to get desperate :-).

Thanks,
Eric Deese (osu-cis!liebert!esd)
phone (614) 841-5508

PS  Any suggestions, no matter how bizarre, will be accepted
    and given the fullest consideration.