Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sys file: sending GenBank stuff to gbupdate?
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.154528.9637@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 15:45:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.031150.4828@crom2.uucp> <1991Apr24.154141.9488@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

I wrote:
>>    gbupdate:bionet.molbio.genbank.updates:B:/usr/db/UPDATES/gbupdate -l
>
>The B flag is archaic but harmless...

I should have been more precise.  The B flag is in fact the default and
does nothing, so it is harmless but useless.  I believe this has been the
case in every news system for nearly a decade now.

(The opposite of the B flag is the A flag, which specifies compatibility
with A News; C News will react to the A flag by telling you it isn't
supported any more.)
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry