Re: Proposed changes to SNews to permit operation over a LAN

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From: Mark Rogers
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <874755439snz@wash.demon.co.uk>, John Washington
<john$@wash.demon.co.uk> writes
>BK> newsbase.  Therefore I propose changing the name of the lock file for
>BK> SNews's HISTORY.SNW file to be SNWSHIST.LCK --- this would obviously require
>BK> alteration of all the support programs in the SNews suite to suit.
>
>Either that or change K9aq and Unbatch's lock file name.  So many
>different ka9q's around, probably less desirable.
>
>But either such solution has serious repercussions, given that there
>are existing users, and no matter how hard you try, stopping users
>upgrading piecemeal is an impossible goal.

Since it's snews thats changing, it should be the snwshist.lck file that
gets added (ie no changes to KA9Q). It isn't unreasonable to expect
unbatch/expire/etc to be upgraded along with snews. Put all the files in
the same .zip, and include the reasoning in the docs. Anyone who still
gets it wrong deserves all they get :-)

-- 
Mark Rogers (Software Engineer)       -o-      mark@controlware.demon.co.uk
2M_ControlWare, Yaxley, Peterborough, ENGLAND.

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