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From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET Software: History and Sources (Updated: 12 November 1988)
Message-ID: <1497@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 20 Mar 89 04:47:42 GMT
References: <6189@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <25358@conexch.UUCP> <477@visdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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In article <477@visdc.UUCP> jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
| 
| News 2.11 patchlevel 17 may be the current version if you have a
| Sequent, but as someone who has applied the patches, wasted a couple of
| days debugging, and restored to patchlevel 14; I can assure you that
| level 14 is the highest level that works "out of the box" on UNIX V.0
| machines.

Works fine for me - a CCI Power 6/32S running Sys V.3 or thereabouts.
I particularly like "expire" identifying the "unparseable date" items.

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU),  Alcatel STC Australia,  dave@stcns3.stc.oz
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