Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: C News and DBZ, status thereof
Message-ID: <1990Apr6.191937.13204@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 19:19:37 GMT

As many people know, I've been promising official dbz support in C News
Real Soon Now for rather a long time.  Quite a few folks have been waiting
impatiently.  Some who've corresponded with me lately know that I was
swearing to have it done by the end of March.  Well, I almost made it.

C News with a spiffied-up dbz has been running on utzoo for a couple of 
days now.  I've found and fixed one obscure problem that didn't come up
in my regression tests -- there is a *reason* why we insist on running
things ourselves for a while before releasing them! -- and if nothing else
turns up, the patch (well, patches, it'll be another two-parter, by the
looks of it) will come out sometime next week.  Apart from watching it
run in production for a few more days, the only thing that isn't done
yet is some of the documentation.
-- 
Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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