Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs.bug:857 gnu.emacs:1014 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: problems with 18.54 distribution/patches (long) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 89 00:54:01 GMT References: <872@apctrc.UUCP> <56766@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: gnu Lines: 22 In-reply-to: rick@uunet.UU.NET's message of 4 Jun 89 05:13:50 GMT In <872@apctrc.UUCP> zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) writes: Jon> Something is sorely broken in 18.54 distribution (as found on uunet) and Jon> patches. At least for Sun3 under SunOS 4.0.1: Some of these could be Jon> attributed to other misc. patches, but not all. Anybody got any ideas? In I wrote: Me> My idea is that it is the uunet copy which is "sorely broken". In article <56766@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes: Rick> The uunet "copy" is exactly that. It is an EXACT image copy of Rick> emacs-18.54.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu. I would like to make a public apology for my poor choice of wording/quoting in my follow-up article. It can apparently be misinterpreted in such a way as to shed bad light on uunet and how well they maintain distributions; I most certainly did not intend to imply such a slur to Rick and the rest of the uunet crew. I apologize to those readers who were misled/offended by it. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))