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From: RAND@merrimack.edu (Rand P. Hall)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Meaningful patches
Message-ID: <6521@merrimack.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 09:37:35 GMT
References: <6413@merrimack.edu> <1840@unocss.UUCP>
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
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In article <1840@unocss.UUCP>, fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
>     No, seriously, I posted DIFF and PATCH so that people could discuss
> the merits of the DIFF/PATCH scheme over the SLP scheme.  This never
> happened, unfortunately.  Geoff has provided both SLP and DIFF patches
> for the CMUTCP driver (thanks Geoff!) and I hope that this is a trend.

Actually, I don't care if they are diff/patch or SLP. I was commenting on:

    "Well, I found a problem in the foo_bar section of zippy.c
     here's the 50 lines of code that will fix it..."

Again, I'm not complaining--just letting everyone know *I* benefit
from having them posted as FORMAL patches.

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