Xref: utzoo news.admin:5522 news.misc:2867 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc Subject: Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources Message-ID: <6493@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 8 Apr 89 21:51:21 GMT Expires: 7 Jul 89 21:51:21 GMT Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 83 Supersedes: <5407@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/software.n Sat Nov 12 18:50:17 1988 --- src/software.n Sat Apr 8 16:43:53 1989 *************** *** 1,3 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: 90days Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU --- 1,3 ----- Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: +90days Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 7 April 1989 by Gene Spafford ] *************** *** 50,52 ! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 14, dated 12/1/87. Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a --- 50,52 ----- ! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 17, dated Feb 1989. Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a *************** *** 118,134 NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. ! C. San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley. It is now in release ! 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan Ethernet cards ! and DECNET under Ultrix. NNTP was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil ! Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among ! others. The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape ! (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available ! from the various authors, many major hosts, and by anonymous FTP from ! ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech. Reader clients for VMS systems should be ! available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI ! , but current availability is unknown. There is also ! an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under Genera ! 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in ! pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly . ! An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards ! is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. --- 118,136 ----- NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. ! C. San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley. It is now in ! release 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan ! Ethernet cards and DECNET under Ultrix. NNTP was developed at U. C. ! Berkeley by Phil Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and ! Mike Meyer, among others. The NNTP package is distributed on the ! 4.3BSD release tape (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) ! and is also available from the various authors, many major hosts, and ! by anonymous FTP from ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech. Reader clients for ! VMS systems should be available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed ! by Dave Edwards of SRI , but current availability is ! unknown. There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics ! Lisp Machines (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ! ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by ! Ian Connolly and maintained by Richard ! Welty . An NNTP reader suite for PC's running ! MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from ! ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf