Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Initial results from version control message Message-ID: <2346@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 21 Oct 89 12:56:18 GMT References: <35750@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 16 In article <35750@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: #> > 2.9 4 (6/26/82) #> There are still sites that are running seven year old software that hasn't #> broken. eek.... # #What I want to know is what happens to those systems when all those files #end up in a *single* directory, since 2.9 didn't have the tree structure in #/usr/spool/news..... Perhaps Rick could ask them - presumably he has the addresses? I think many of us would be interested to hear how people cope with such old software on the current net. Regards, "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity" David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW