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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: PATCH usage
Message-ID: <4764@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 7 Jul 88 03:02:21 GMT
References: <393@sce.UUCP> <1129@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1323@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1323@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
|But the enormous volume engendered by all the patch traffic is the point of
|contention.  It is very inefficient to send a 90K original posting, then
|200K of patches.  Much, much better to send the original, patched...

It is better to get 13 patches than 13 copies of the entire
distribution. 

As since I USE DAILY Larry's software, I do appreciate getting the
patches before I find the bugs the hard way.
-- 
	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
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