billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM (Bill Randle) (06/24/89)
Submitted-by: Bill Randle <billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM> Posting-number: Volume 6, Info 4 Archive-name: V6-Info4 Two new optional auxillary headers have been added to comp.sources.games postings. The first one "Patch-To:" lists a volume and issue number that a posted patch applies to. This can provide extra help for automatic archivers to ensure that the patch gets archived with the original source (for archive sites that save files by vol/issue). The format of the "Patch-To:" line is: Patch-To: Volume v, Issue i or Patch-To: Volume v, Issue i-j The second optional header is "Superseeds:". This is used when posting an updated version of a program that was previously posted. The format of the "Superseeds:" line is: Superseeds: archive-name; Volume n, Issue i or Superseeds: archive-name; Volume n, Issue i-j The Superseeds entry is helpful for cleaning archives by providing a pointer to previous versions that (may) be deleted from the archive. As always, feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome. -Bill Randle Moderator, comp.sources.games Tektronix, Inc. games@saab.CNA.TEK.COM P.S. Another change that should not affect anyone is that news postings are now made from my Sun worstation, rather than the Vax, so some of the news headers will have "saab.CNA.TEK.COM" instead of "tekred.CNA.TEK.COM". In addition, the sender field will say "nobody@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM".