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Re: Irritating BNU FOSSIL / Telegard display conflict

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From: Matthew Chalmers
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:51
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>>When using BNU release 5 with Telegard 2.7 on my true blue AT...
>
>BNU Release 5?  The release version is BNU 1.70.

Sorry, you're both wrong. FOSSIL (Fido/Opus/SeaDog Standard Interface Layer)
is revision 5, and BNU (some long Norwegien or Swedish name starting with B,
Nugent, Unique -- for the author, Dave Nugent, and the company, Unique
Computing) is version 1.70.

RELEASE != VERSION != REVISION in this case. (!= means "does not equal" for
those of you who don't know any C.)
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From: mchalmer@mcs213a.cs.umr.edu (Matthew Chalmers)
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