A couple things had to be changed to get this to compile under Linux.
Basically, when you run 'doit.bin' it will fail in several places complaining
about a problem with 'atol' or 'atof', etc. In these cases, find the line
that mentions 'atol' (or whatever, usually as an extern) and comment it out.
Then run 'doit.bin' again.

You'll also run into a couple other places where something will bomb out
failing to find some functions. You'll notice that these lines all have
'-ldbm' in them. Find the directory with the source files mentioned in the line
that fails, and execute the command yourself moving '-ldbm' to the end of the
command instead of the middle. Type carefully, or use selection.

The Cnews executables were placed in /usr/lib/newsbin and /usr/bin.
The configuration files were placed in /var/lib/news. The news articles
will go under /var/spool/news.

Good luck!