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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
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Date: 18 Mar 88 18:09:09 GMT
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Summary: Sigh...I give in

In article <2004@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>The answer, of course, is to put back in the DOXREFS patch as a
>configurable option.

O.K., I'll do it, under protest. I still maintain that the Xref header is
wrong, because ID cross-referencing ought to be done through the history
file, but there is obviously too much demand for this feature for me to
resist it.

Somebody wanna send me diffs for the DOXREFS patch, or the relevant 2 or 3
small sections of code?

What I *really* want is a 'compatible' rn or rn emulator that uses the 3.0
service libraries and file formats -- but Larry Wall never answered my
repeated email attempts to arrange something. Is anyone else interested in
helping make rn a full-fledged member of the official distribution?
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