fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) (08/24/89)
Who is archiving the patches to C news? I don't see them on osu-cis, and since they came across news.software.b instead of comp.sources.* they won't be in anybody's favorite source-group archive. The reason for the question is I find we're missing patch 3, dated 7/23/89, so if somebody could point me at this one in particular, I'd be grateful. But the original question still stands, in case we (or anybody else) miss a future patch. --- Tom Fitzgerald - Wang Labs - fitz@wang.com - ...uunet!wang!fitz - 508-967-5278 --- My [high school aptitude] test results indicated that my destiny was to become a secretary. I scored highest in 'clerical'. -- Frank Zappa
wes@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Wes.Craig) (08/25/89)
In article <516@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
[ Asks if anyone is archiving cnews patches ]
They're on terminator.cc.umich.edu:~ftp/unix/news (35.1.33.8). We do
our best to stay up to date. We don't offer any sort of uucp access to
our archive, but if there is significant interest, something can be
done.
wes
mailrus!wes
wes@mailrus.cc.umich.edunews@fps.com (NetNews Administrator) (08/25/89)
In article <1989Aug24.190210.970@terminator.cc.umich.edu> wes@redheat.cc.umich.edu (Wes.Craig) writes: >In article <516@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >[ Asks if anyone is archiving cnews patches ] >They're on terminator.cc.umich.edu:~ftp/unix/news (35.1.33.8). We do >our best to stay up to date. We don't offer any sort of uucp access to >our archive, but if there is significant interest, something can be >done. Thank You! I somehow missed the Jul 23 patch and I didn't even know about it until I saw it in the new patch. Uunet doesn't seem to have it unless I want to download the entire cnews distribution again ( same story for neat). The comp.sources.unix archives on uunet only have something called "patch1". Thanks for posting the internet address too because the machine I grabbed it with couldn't talk to your name-server but the internet address got me through. I don't want to download the entire thing again since we aren't on the internet and I have to download things from a guest account on an internet machine and then transfer it to my site via phone line at 2400 baud. I do have one question though: you are using patch numbers, why? I know there's a big flame war going on right now but don't the author's wishes count for anything? I personally don't care one way or the other since I don't really see a big problem with either method but it'd be nice to be consistent. Fortunately, with only 4 patches, it only took me 0.5 seconds to figure out that cnews.patch.3 was the Jul 23 patch but if we get up to 15 patches or so it won't be so easy. Henry and Geoff claim/hope this won't happen but who knows? --Bill Davidson
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (08/26/89)
The Cnews patches are now on uunet: comp.sources.unix/volume19/cnews2/ pch23jun89.Z pch07jul89.Z pch23jul89.Z pch22aug89.Z pch24aug89.Z UUNET clients and FTP-folks on the Internet, go for it. (Five down, one expected, 11 to go.) As I've mentioned to Henry in response to his "email us your problems with date-based patches," numeric patches have obvious "official names"; date-based less-so. (Hints: sorting, .Z, non-BSD filesystems, European-US difference on whether 2/10/60 is October 2 or my birthday. :-) -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (08/26/89)
In article <516@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >Who is archiving the patches to C news? I don't see them on osu-cis, >and since they came across news.software.b instead of comp.sources.* >they won't be in anybody's favorite source-group archive. The comp.sources.unix archives are getting them by mail and are archiving them. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (08/26/89)
In article <585@celit.com> news@fps.com (NetNews Administrator) writes: In article <1989Aug24.190210.970@terminator.cc.umich.edu> wes@redheat.cc.umich.edu (Wes.Craig) writes: In article <516@wang.UUCP> fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: [ Asks if anyone is archiving cnews patches ] We don't offer any sort of uucp access to our archive... They're on osu-cis for UUCP and tut.cis.ohio-state.edu for FTP. I do have one question though: you are using patch numbers, why? ...don't the author's wishes count for anything? OK, the copies here are called osu-cis!~/news/c/ cnews-890623.Z cnews-890707.Z cnews-890723.Z cnews-890822.Z cnews-890824.Z I hope that's a reasonable compromise between dated versions (for the author), descriptive filenames that sort conveniently (for the rest of us), and short filenames (for the rest of them with short-naming filesystems).
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (08/26/89)
In article <1942@prune.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >As I've mentioned to Henry in response to his "email us your problems with >date-based patches," numeric patches have obvious "official names"; >date-based less-so... Rich wins the prize for actually pointing out a problem we hadn't thought of! (And, therefore, for producing the *first* article on the subject that we actually consider interesting. We're not holding our breaths waiting for the next one... :-( ) -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu