Problems installing news on a Model/80

[Mike Squires]

>
>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 had the same problem with 2.10 which turned out to be incompatible versions
of "compress".  I switched both ends to compress 4.0 and had no more problems.
If this is the problem switching your feed to uncompressed format should solve
the problem, or you could copy one of the batched files out of /usr/spool/uucp
and try to uncompress it and then edit it.