Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: dbz is a must!
Summary: One complaint retracted (bad copy was being used to build from)
Message-ID: <1989Jul9.192319.9053@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 89 19:23:19 GMT
References: <1989Jul4.183539.19106@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <9568@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1989Jul9.043700.11769@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <1989Jul9.043700.11769@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

I retract my comment quoted below; it appears that the copy I was building
from was missing the "man/*" subdirectory!  I have unpacked the Usenet
posted copy, and now have the manual pages.  Oops.

The remainder of the distribution I was building from is/was identical to
the Usenet distribution, so the rest of my comments still apply.

>2) "C" news has little or no documentation.  For example, "expire" flags had
>   to be discerned by reading the code.  I don't mind reading the code
>   (after all, I had to compile and tweak it), but c'mon -- not even a
>   description of the formats in the files themselves, although there is a
>   comment character (#) supported?!  That wasn't nice!

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