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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources
Message-ID: <4851@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 88 02:19:32 GMT
Expires: 11 Dec 88 02:19:32 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
Lines: 68
Supersedes: <4699@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>

This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of 
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.  New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/software.n	Wed Aug 17 23:08:32 1988
--- src/software.n	Sun Sep 11 21:13:47 1988
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*** 1,4
  Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 40days
! Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU
  

--- 1,4 -----
  Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
  
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*** 5,7
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 17 August 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 77,81
  A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall
! of JPL/NASA and released in 1984.  This interface also uses full-screen
! display with direct positioning, but it includes many other useful
! features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The
  interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles

--- 77,81 -----
  A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall
! now of JPL/NASA and released in 1984.  This interface also uses
! full-screen display with direct positioning, but it includes many other
! useful features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The
  interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles
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*** 187,189
  
! Current software is obtainable from almost any Usenet major site.
  Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available.

--- 187,189 -----
  
! Current software is obtainable from almost any major Usenet site.
  Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available.
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*** 195,197
  		----		-------
- 		felix		felix!bytebug
  		gatech		gatech!usenet

--- 195,196 -----
  		----		-------
  		gatech		gatech!usenet
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf