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- From: billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM (Bill Randle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.games
- Subject: v06INF4: New Auxillary Headers
- Message-ID: <4140@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM>
- Date: 24 Jun 89 16:19:22 GMT
- Sender: news@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM
- Lines: 36
- Approved: billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM
-
- Submitted-by: Bill Randle <billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM>
- Posting-number: Volume 6, Info 4
- Archive-name: V6-Info4
-
- Two new optional auxillary headers have been added to comp.sources.games
- postings. The first one "Patch-To:" lists a volume and issue number that
- a posted patch applies to. This can provide extra help for automatic
- archivers to ensure that the patch gets archived with the original
- source (for archive sites that save files by vol/issue). The format of
- the "Patch-To:" line is:
-
- Patch-To: Volume v, Issue i
- or
- Patch-To: Volume v, Issue i-j
-
- The second optional header is "Superseeds:". This is used when posting
- an updated version of a program that was previously posted. The format
- of the "Superseeds:" line is:
-
- Superseeds: archive-name; Volume n, Issue i
- or
- Superseeds: archive-name; Volume n, Issue i-j
-
- The Superseeds entry is helpful for cleaning archives by providing a
- pointer to previous versions that (may) be deleted from the archive.
- As always, feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
-
- -Bill Randle
- Moderator, comp.sources.games
- Tektronix, Inc.
- games@saab.CNA.TEK.COM
-
- P.S. Another change that should not affect anyone is that news postings
- are now made from my Sun worstation, rather than the Vax, so some of
- the news headers will have "saab.CNA.TEK.COM" instead of "tekred.CNA.TEK.COM".
- In addition, the sender field will say "nobody@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM".
-