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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: bug fixes for sources in net.sources
Message-ID: <1115@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 11:54:36 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1115
Posted: Sun Mar  9 11:54:36 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 00:24:42 EST
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Distribution: net
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

We seem to have a rash lately of the following:

a) Source is posted to net.sources, it is BSD-specific.
b) Author/poster then posts a SV-compatible version (bravo!, by the way)
c) Author/poster then posts oodles of bug fixes, but either
	1) doesn't tell you which version s/he is fixing, or
	2) only posts fixes for the BSD version.

If you post different versions of a tool/game/whatever, please indicate
VERY clearly in the bug fixes what it is you are fixing -- this is
particularly true on fixes that are designed to be ed(1) scripts or
patch(1L) scripts; since they do very strange things or nothing at all
to the wrong source.

One suggestion is to save a copy of the article identifier (that's the
one that says <1234@mysite.ARPA> or whatever, and reference it when
you post bug fixes/enhancements to net.sources.bugs.

Thanks for your time, and remember -- net.sources is JUST for sources;
let's keep the discussions in here!
-- 

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