1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
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$FreeBSD$
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1994-09-03 19:16:28 +00:00
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Maintenance notes:
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I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help,
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but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following:
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- Don't change the version numbers!
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If your changes are extensive, I will have to work hard to
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integrate them into my version. If you check it into SCCS locally,
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the version numbers will likely be kept. IF you check it into RCS
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or CVS locally, please use -k to keep the version numbers, and
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please use branch deltas (1.21.1, 1.21.2, ...). If you don't do
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this, I will likely be unable to use your changes; life's just too
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short.
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- Do not distribute changed versions.
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People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions
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of the file command for FTP, then the "archie" server finds and publishes
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the hacked version, and people all over the world get copies of it.
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Within a day or two I am getting email from around the world
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asking me why "my" file command won't compile!!! Needless to say this
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detracts from the limited time I have available to work on the actual
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software. Therefore I ask you again to please NOT distribute
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your changed version.
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Thank you for your assistance and cooperation.
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Mark Moraes Christos Zoulas
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moraes@deshaw.com christos@deshaw.com
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