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From: lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C-News 16Mar91 compile problem (SysVR3.2)
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.184409.25608@sat.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:44:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.221551.6408@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar20.080059.19992@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: SAT, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1991Mar20.080059.19992@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
=In article <1991Mar19.221551.6408@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
=>I have just tried to re-build C-News on my system incorporating the latest
=>patch (16Mar91) and find that I can't.  It seems this patch has now caused
=>the code to be broken on my system...
=
=I'd appreciate it if people installing patches would *read* the commentary
=that precedes them first.  From the 16-Mar-1991 commentary:
=
=  This again is the first of a set, which should appear within the next week.
=  The members of the set are interrelated to some extent, and installing one
=  without the others voids your warranty. :-) ...

What is the point in sending out a series of interrelated patches over
an extended period of time?  Are you afraid of overloading the net?
All you are doing is increasing the likelyhood that people will miss
one of the patches.

AHA!  I figured it out!  Your patch identification scheme doesn't
allow you to send out more than one a day!  Time to change to
numbering?  Just asking.

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Larry Blair   lmb@sat.com   {apple,decwrl}!sat!lmb