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From: news@fps.com (NetNews Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Are C news patches being archived anywhere?
Message-ID: <585@celit.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 03:35:08 GMT
References: <516@wang.UUCP> <1989Aug24.190210.970@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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In article <1989Aug24.190210.970@terminator.cc.umich.edu> wes@redheat.cc.umich.edu (Wes.Craig) writes:
>In article <516@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>[ Asks if anyone is archiving cnews patches ]
>They're on terminator.cc.umich.edu:~ftp/unix/news (35.1.33.8). We do
>our best to stay up to date. We don't offer any sort of uucp access to
>our archive, but if there is significant interest, something can be
>done.

Thank You!  I somehow missed the Jul 23 patch and I didn't even know
about it until I saw it in the new patch.  Uunet doesn't seem to have
it unless I want to download the entire cnews distribution again (
same story for neat).  The comp.sources.unix archives on uunet only
have something called "patch1".  Thanks for posting the internet
address too because the machine I grabbed it with couldn't talk to
your name-server but the internet address got me through.  I don't
want to download the entire thing again since we aren't on the
internet and I have to download things from a guest account on an
internet machine and then transfer it to my site via phone line at
2400 baud.

I do have one question though: you are using patch numbers, why?  I
know there's a big flame war going on right now but don't the author's
wishes count for anything?  I personally don't care one way or the
other since I don't really see a big problem with either method but
it'd be nice to be consistent.  Fortunately, with only 4 patches, it
only took me 0.5 seconds to figure out that cnews.patch.3 was the Jul
23 patch but if we get up to 15 patches or so it won't be so easy.
Henry and Geoff claim/hope this won't happen but who knows?

--Bill Davidson