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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: Lets see what versions of news people are running
Summary: Yes, but.
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campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>[In the results of Control: version]
>How about including the output of a "what inews" command?  It's a bit
>verbose, but has the benefit that you *know* exactly what version of
>*everything* went into it.

This doesn't work well if inews is a shell script, which (in C news) it
is...

--John

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