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From: berend AT beard DOT nest DOT nl (Berend de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Beta 5 changes?
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Date: 06 Feb 96 21:36:38 +0100
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in a message to All:

EZ> What's wrong with running ``diff -c -r'' on the old and new
EZ> directories?   That's what I do, anyway.  Makes me immune to
EZ> possible errors and  omissions of whoever prepares the list you are
EZ> asking for (what with the  weird hours those persons work ;-).

The problem with this approach that you for every single change you have to grasp immediately why this was changed. You really grasp that??

A list serves another purpose: as a list of things which should have been changed (but maybe hasn't or incorrectly).


Groetjes,

Berend (-:
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