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From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: first article in tor.news
Message-ID: <258@spectrix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 08:48:40 EST
Article-I.D.: spectrix.258
Posted: Fri Dec  5 08:48:40 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 17:56:10 EST
References: <1411@lsuc.UUCP> <148@maccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Keywords: news administration archive fantastic

In article <148@maccs.UUCP> dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) writes:
>..., it may be beneficial to establish an archive of news
>software in the Toronto region.

Watch out for sites upgrading to 2.11.  They should have pretty well
the latest.  Spectrix is one.  lsuc is one.  Mnetor has got the official
releases, though, due to various reasons (not the least being afraid
to blow out most of Southern Ontario), Ron hasn't upgraded yet.

As a suggestion, why don't we compile a list of systems having the
latest software installed and that are willing to provide pieces to
other people starting up?  I volunteer to initially compile the list.  So,
could everybody running 2.11, patch level 1, and/or rn patch level 39 and
is willing to give others some level of assistance (from a copy of a patch,
assistance with installs/problems, to a full source set) send me a mail
message of what you've got, and what you have time for helping with.  
In a week or so I will post the list of who's up-to-date, and
what levels of help can be provided.

>     Now I would like to make the first request for assistance, I am
>desperately in need of patches 27 thru 31 for rn. We have news 2.11
>ready to go but need to have rn patched to at least 31. I have 
>patches 32 thru 39 but can't install these until patches 27-31 are
>installed. Please let me know if you have the patches and we can
>arrange a method of transfer.

Read the preamble to one of your higher number patches (eg: 39).  Larry
Wall has installed an automatic patch mailer.  It works something like:

mail lwall@sdcrdcf
Subject: Command
@SH mailpatch PATH rn 4.3 PATCHES

Where "PATH" is the full bang path from sdcrdcf to you, and PATCHES is
a comma separated list of patch numbers.

In your case, this is what you want:

mail lsuc!mnetor!seismo!hplabs!sdcrdcf!lwall
Subject: Command
@SH mailpatch hplabs!seismo!mnetor!lsuc!maccs!dan rn 4.3 27,28,29,30,31

It works quite well - I've been using it a lot lately...

You can also get patches for patch this way too.
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