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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news alpha release
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 19:27:53 EDT
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> ...Is C news stable enough to install yet?  What kind of problems should I
> expect?

There is more detail on this in the distribution, but roughly speaking,
the alpha release is stable enough to install if you aren't doing anything
strange with news and you are willing to spend some time understanding it,
putting the pieces together, and checking them out.  It's not a polished,
turn-key distribution.  Expect inadequate documentation (not everything that
should be written has been), missing features (ditto), and probably some
portability problems here and there (due to lack of formal beta testing).
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"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry