Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA From: W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Arghh MDM730 Message-ID: <297@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 00:40:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.297 Posted: Mon Apr 2 00:40:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 00:44:23 EST Lines: 21 From: Keith Petersen Irv called Bob Clyne who co-sysops my RCPM saying that we should replace MDM730.COM with the "new MDM730.COM" and he has sent it to Sysop RCPM and all around the country, as you've said, Bob. Our attitude is this: we do NOT want to carry two programs with the SAME NAME and will reject this "update". We will continue to carry the original MDM730 files, including the source code, until an update is made to the filename. We will carry patch fix .ASM files and if you consider yours to be "ready for release" will put it out immediately. Irv has done this before, which is why I took away his "ERA" priveleges on my RCPM. He was updating files without telling anyone and without changing the filenames. It was chaos. He's so worried about "what people will think"... What about us RCPM Sysops who have to try to explain WHY two people who downloaded the same program on different dates don't have the same version? I'm going to recommend to the sysops on the clearinghouse that they reject Irv's "improved MDM730". --Keith