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Re: Shareware

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From: Chris Croughton
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <834213854snz@pdlmail.demon.co.uk>
           pete@pdlmail.demon.co.uk "Peter Disdale" wrote:

>Sorry to butt in again, but I fear it might be me that started
>the confusion:(  The '216d' release I was referring to was the
>DIS216d.EXE sfx - this is where I found the readme.1st.

That's what I suspected.  Having a working system already, I don't want
other things to mess it up, just the individual program upgrades (KA9Q
and SNEWS, plus SNZPRUNE and a couple of other utilities).

>I suppose Demon assume that anyone d/loading NET upgrades will
>already have all the docs etc. from a previous full package.

It wasn't in the ones from 4 years ago, which is when I last and
first!) did a full upgrade <g>...

>A case for including the salient docs in the NETxxx.ZIPs, maybe?

Things like the copyright and shareware stuff, certainly.  The GNU
programs should all have COPYING.DOC anyway as a minimum, I think they
all do (or the ones I look at)...

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Date: 1996/06/08
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