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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Lets see what versions of news people are running
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Date: 14 Oct 89 14:23:38 GMT
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In article <1989Oct13.212209.7537@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
-In article <1989Oct12.233424.28224@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
->... A better question is: what sorts of information
->should version give? Just the news version? News and nntp version? How
->about a 'system' control that returns the system type, news and nntp
->version, system name, and contact info...
-
-Interesting point.  Anybody else have any thoughts on this?  C News can
-include anything that is readily found by a Unix command, since the code
-that actually builds the version message is a shell file.

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.
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Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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