Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: News V5.9 availability? Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 16:52:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Bob Sloane Lines: 19 X-VMS-To: ANU-NEWS Tim Russell writes: > Usually Geoff does a seperate distribution for a major release.. So > I kind of doubt it. Besides, I don't trust those SLP diffs. I need > to work on porting Larry Wall's patch to VMS so we can use context > diffs. That would be much better. Do you have any specific evidence that SLP diffs are less reliable than the patch program or is this just your personal feelings? Other than the BITNET problems of folding lines at 80 columns (which would kill the patch program) what problems have you had with SLP diffs? Why should we depend on a program that is unsupported for VMS when we have a program that works and IS supported? How do we know that this patch program will be any better than SLP diffs? I think we should stick with something that is a supported product and that everyone has already. +-------------------+-------------------------------------+------------------+ | Bob Sloane \Internet: SLOANE@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU/Anything I said is | | Computer Center \ BITNET: SLOANE@UKANVAX.BITNET / my opinion, not my | | University of Kansas\ AT&T: (913) 864-0444 / employer's. | +-----------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------+