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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: rnews problem solved
Message-ID: <1854@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 15:56:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1854
Posted: Tue Jun  9 15:56:34 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 00:52:52 EDT
References: <762@bakerst.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: documentation doesn't keep up with patches

In article <762@bakerst.UUCP> kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) writes:
>I found the apparent reason today: a file in /usr/spool/news
>called .rnews.lock and dated the Day News Died.
>
>I grepped thru all the docs, man files, and code that I
>have, and found no mention of such a file ... 

Don't you know the first rule of UNIX use?  The only
real documentation for anything is in the source code,
not the manuals :-)  And you have to be creative when
grepping. Try
	grep "\.lock" inews.c
(spbuf gets "+rnews.lock" or ".rnews.lock" depending
on #ifdef VMS)

Seriously, it would be very nice if Rick would provide
patches to the documentation along with the patches to
the source. The explanations which come with the patches
are too fleeting.  Rick, you've done a professional job
of posting patches; can you follow it up with a patch for
all the documentation, followed by future patches complete
with doc patches?  It would be appreciated.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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