Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 'inews 2.11.14' problems...
Message-ID: <1989Mar29.204757.3831@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <883@altos86.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 20:47:57 GMT

In article <883@altos86.UUCP> dtynan@altos86.UUCP (Dermot Tynan) writes:
>... although 'inews' has compilation
>support for V7, the code which updates the 'active' file uses mode "r+" to
>fopen.  In checking my V7 programmers manual, this mode option wasn't available
>then...

The code was there in V7 but it was not documented.  (One might wonder
how thoroughly it had been debugged, mind you.)
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