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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Are C news patches being archived anywhere?
Message-ID: <BOB.89Aug25174727@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 21:47:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: news@fps.com's message of 25 Aug 89 03:35:08 GMT

In article <585@celit.com> news@fps.com (NetNews Administrator) writes:
   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 ]

      We don't offer any sort of uucp access to our archive...

They're on osu-cis for UUCP and tut.cis.ohio-state.edu for FTP.

   I do have one question though: you are using patch numbers, why?
   ...don't the author's wishes count for anything?

OK, the copies here are called osu-cis!~/news/c/
cnews-890623.Z
cnews-890707.Z
cnews-890723.Z
cnews-890822.Z
cnews-890824.Z

I hope that's a reasonable compromise between dated versions (for the
author), descriptive filenames that sort conveniently (for the rest of
us), and short filenames (for the rest of them with short-naming
filesystems).