Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 13-Nov-1989 patch for C News
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.183040.2876@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov13.223108.9713@utzoo.uucp> <2879@taux01.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 18:30:40 GMT

In article <2879@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>>start of patch 13-Nov-1989
>>(suggested archive name: `pch13Nov89.Z')
>
>I use the format Patch-89-11-13.  It's the best way to make sure
>patches always appear in order of application...

The "suggested archive name" format actually came from someone else,
possibly Rich Salz (I no longer remember who).  I'm reluctant to change
it in mid-stream.

I also have a personal but serious dislike for months expressed as numbers.
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