Re: xboard and WinBoard 4.2.4 released

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From: Clifford Stern
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:30

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On 10 Dec 2001 03:57:50 GMT, Tim Mann <usenet@tim-mann.org> wrote:

>** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.4 **
>
>A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
>4.2.4 is strictly a bugfix release.  It corrects about 30 bugs in the
>4.2.3 release, upgrades the included copy of GNU Chess 5 from 5.00 to
>5.02, and adds a couple of very minor features.  See the ChangeLog
>included with the release for details.

A belated thanks for version 4.2.3 which fixed the bug that crept in
sometime after 4.0.7 in which games didn't always load with automatic
stepping. But why is this latest version so much bigger? It seems
strange for merely a bugfix release:

winboard-4_2_3.exe    2,299,250 bytes

winboard-4_2_4.exe  10,020,579 bytes

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From: ax810@lafn.org (Clifford Stern)
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Subject: Re: xboard and WinBoard 4.2.4 released
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:30:40 GMT
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