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From: jim@bu-cs.BU.EDU (James D. McNamara)
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Subject: LARN Version 12 Distribution
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Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 02:16:18 EDT
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In article <1292@condor.UUCP> noah@condor.UUCP (Noah Morgan) writes:
|Larn, version 12.0 is now being posted to the net.

|James D. McNamara (harvard!bu-cs!jim) has volunteered to keep organized
|any bugs and patches that larn may need.  Bug reports, source or patch
|requests can be directed to Jim or myself (panda!condor!noah), and we'll try
|to respond promptly.
|
|Thanks to all of you who helped out in describing problems, and for the ideas

TO LARN INSTALLERS ON MY MAILING-LIST:

You have *not* heard from me lately--this was in anticipation of the NEW
Larn 12.0, which is now here!  Frankly, I dropped a few of the source
files on the floor, started in a new position (Project Team 9 months
behind schedule), and had to schlock-off Larn for a few weeks.  BUT, Noah
came out with 12.0 right on schedule (hat's off), and I am mentally
prepared to resume distribution to those who can't get it from the net.

NOTE: I had a few new requests come in within past 5 weeks that I have
absolutely *not* gotten around to responding to.  Appologies, but I will
put you on my new list.  (I will send out a distribution test in a week,
and will take distribution requests after that.)

REGARDING BUG FIXES:

My primary interest in Larn 12.0 is to assemble bug-reports from Larn
installers (and players).  These have been forwarded to Noah, and most
of the grousing I received from youse guys has been FIXED in 12.0--
so there!

POSSIBLE BUG IN "SH LARN.P6" (Version 12.0):

SH'ing the NEW part6 gave an unexpected shar eof on the first run here
at bu-cs.  The part6 file (size 51 under Sun Unix 4.2BSD) was truncated
to size 8.  This was caused by our new version of EMACS at bu-cs.

When emacs was used to slice off the headers from the net.sources.games
distribution, it decided to lunch most of the file upon saving (both
C-X C-S "save" *and* C-X C-W "write").  This annoying "feature" of our
happy new editor was circumvented by changing the editor "mode" from
"Fundamental" to "Lisp" (M-X lisp-mode).  Why Lisp?  Idunno, but hey,
it worked... so there!

TO MY CURRENT CORRESPONDENTS WAITING FOR LARN:

Please be patient.  I'm going to try to update my mailing list and
reach all of you; I will ask if you want the Larn 12.0.  I will no
longer be distributing *any* Larn 11.0 sources, and I don't see the
point of worrying about bug-fixes for it, but I will accept bug
reports from Version 11.0 if you insist.


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