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From: pha@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Paul H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: APR's and patches
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Date: 12 Apr 89 13:18:42 GMT
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Regarding making patches available via anonymous ftp:

Even if that can't be worked out, possibly due to license
problems, or whatever, it still makes lots of sense for Apollo
to post known bugs and availability of patches to this newsgroup.

If you ask me, this is far less an imposition, if you want to
call it that, than posting new product announcements (which I
like, but some may not).

Just knowing where bugs are in compilers and the OS stuff can
make life much, much easier.

For that matter, ADUS could stand to be more active in this
newsgroup, since it seems to me that it could get quite a few
more submissions via email, as well as announcing available things.

One last comment - recently, a querey was posted about the availability
of a MSDOS disk reader/writer that runs under Aegis, rather than the
DPCE or DPCC products - what became of these?  Several months ago, a dos
disk package was posted to the net for generic unix boxes, and although
it came close to working on SR10.1, I didn't have enough time to actually
make it work.  This is the kind of thing that would be incredibly valuable
to customers everywhere, since moving files from machine to machine via
floppy is far prefereable to moving the files via kermit or expensive 
ethernet setups (for us tightwads, anyhow).

If anyone has any patches to MTools (posted to the net middle or late last
year?) - I would be very grateful if they were posted or emailed to me.
The functionality is what is important, so if there are alternative programs
that do the same thing, that would be good to know about, too.

enough said for now...

Paul Anderson
CAEN