Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!uhccux!richard From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Where does cnews live? Message-ID: <4571@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 16:22:16 GMT References: <28272@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1989Aug7.195904.13429@utzoo.uucp> <1989Aug8.170802.20975@vicom.com> <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 9 } >Which brings us back to the issue of patch numbering. If the patches for } >C News were numbered like every other piece of net.software, we would } >know that there were only 3 and we would know if we had missed any. } } Oh, nonsense. If they were numbered, you'd be asking what the latest } number was. This way, if the patch is dated yesterday, you have pretty } considerable confidence that you are current. And if they were numbered and dated then we'd have the best of everything.