Re: newsoverview & doexpire (Was: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:05

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In article <JPM.92Dec26155451@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> jpm@cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere) writes:
>   Uh, what do you mean, "the nov release"???
>
>Hmmmm... The "newsoverview" stuff by Geoff Collyer, usually referred
>to as "nov" (sic), available as world.std.com:pub/src/news/nov.dist.tar.Z.
>The doexpire in there has the code mentioned in it.

That isn't a C News release...  "nov" is "News OVerview", not "NOVember".
And if memory serves, that code is explicitly advertised as being a wee
bit experimental as yet.  Geoff simply goofed on this one.
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"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: newsoverview & doexpire (Was: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o)
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