arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) (01/27/89)
In keeping with my past history of posting patches to the news source, I have just finished posting patches 15, 16, and 17 to B News 2.11 to unix-pc.sources. These are all one "logical" patch, distributed as three separate physical patches. In other words, you have to apply all of them or none of them. It is interesting to see the timing of the patches. Both C News and B News 3.0 are scheduled for imminent release. Both new sets of netnews programs claim significant improvement over 2.11. It will be interesting to see which one becomes the standard. As I understand it, and take this with a grain of salt, C News merely replaces the parts that move news and administer it; i.e. rnews and expire, while News 3.0 does that as well as supplying news reading programs. And maybe one of these days, Larry Wall will get rn 5.0 out. Oh well, it seems like life as a news admin is about to get more interesting. Enjoy, folks! (Actually, I'm looking forward to it; on a 3B1 you can really tell when rnews cranks up...) [ No, I haven't gotten my anonymous UUCP archive reorganized yet. Soon. ] -- "Crack-pot societies of all kinds sprang up everwhere, advocating everything from absolutism to anarchy. Queer cults arose, preaching free love, the imminent end of the world, and many other departures from the norm of thought." E.E. "Doc" Smith, Children of the Lens, 1954 | Arnold Robbins, skeeve!arnold