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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Meaningful patches
Message-ID: <1840@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 05:37:01 GMT
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RAND@merrimack.edu (Rand P. Hall) writes:

|What happened to DIFF and PATCH? I thought changes to NEWS (other than
|major revisions) were going to be posted as DIFF/PATCH files.

   Well, in my ideal world they would be.. :-)

    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.

    But as I've said, if not, I'll live.. I just think DIFF patches are
a ittle more tolerant to local changes, etc.

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Tim Russell   Univ. Of Nebr. at Omaha   russell@{zeus.unl.edu | unoma1.bitnet}
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