Apur-phy.236 net.followup utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!pur-phy!crl Thu Mar 4 21:31:32 1982 Re: posting bug fixes with diffs I am not sure I like seeing only diffs that are editor scripts. Often an installation makes some minor changes to a piece of software, thus throwing the line numbers off by a couple. Thus the editor script type of diff would be almost impossible to install. In fact, after making all the changes that came out after the b-news distribution, I really appreciated the very verbose type of diff, the one that includes about 3 lines of context around the change. Someone should post that one to net.sources because it really is superior to the old one where you saw only one line. For kicks, if diff says to fix line 50, and your source has exact copies of that line at numbers 45 and 55, try to guess which one it meant! Charles LaBrec pur-ee!physics:crl ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.