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Article #430Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
From: Wayne Schlitt
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 11:50
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 11:50
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In article <18549@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: < < i know better than to get involved in this ... [ but does anyway ... ] < < both dates and numbers are sequential. july always follows june, just < as 7 always follows 6. yet there are no numbers intervening 6 and 7, < unlike jun-01-90 and jul-31-90. thus, there is more information < contained in the statement "this is patch #7" than in "this is patch < jul-31-90". well, the obvious solution to this problem is to simply release one patch per day. :-> -wayne
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990 Message-ID: <WAYNE.90Sep21075039@dsndata.uucp> Date: 21 Sep 90 11:50:39 GMT References: <1990Sep9.230537.18939@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <18549@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 15 In-reply-to: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org's message of 20 Sep 90 04:13:27 GMT