[news.software.b] cnews - actual patchlevel/date ?

eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) (10/16/89)

Hi. I have not followed all the discussions about cnews in the past
and now that i've installed some version of cnews i am a bit confused
as to which patchlevel/date/whatever marks the newest release:
- How can i find out which version of cnews my sources are ?
- which is the newest version/patchlevel/date ?
- where can i get patches from via ftp, in case i am using an old version ?

Shurely this has been asked may times, but as the
documentaion says nothing about it ..


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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/17/89)

In article <546@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) writes:
>- How can i find out which version of cnews my sources are ?

Look at the PATCHDATES file in the sources.

>- which is the newest version/patchlevel/date ?

The 14-Sep-1989 patch is the latest.  (Note that the original posting
interacted badly with some of the unwanted "intelligence" in the patch
program, so a revised version went out a day or two later.)

>- where can i get patches from via ftp, in case i am using an old version ?

The comp.sources.unix archives, e.g. on uunet, should have all of them.
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