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In article <1iieksINN2dr@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>
>Which brings up a major pet peeve of mine:
>
>I've been going through the list of applications that work under GNO so
>I can A) compile a list for the FAQ and B) so I can keep an up-to-date
>list of what programs GNO has.

GREAT, at last a list of applications that runs under GNO, any chance
of including where the application can be got from, ftp site + filename.

>Unfortunately, only 16 of 81(!) utilities that I have checked so far have
>any sort of version printout.  Thus, I also have to stick the date of the
>latest revision in this file, which is a pain and not as accurate.
>
>So please, folks, when you port/write a utility, include a -V flag!  That
>way people can easily find out what version they have, and things will be
>much nicer, etc etc.  It also means when you give out source and let someone
>compile it themselves the version will still be identifable as the latest
>(which you can't say about the check-by-date version).

not a bad idea.

>I'll post my list in a few days, we'll see what happens...


Looking forward to it.


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