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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] changes & bugs fixed since 0.8...
Date: 6 Jun 93 09:57:20
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 6 Jun 1993 14:35:53 +0100
In article <1usrrp$8kn@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) writes:
>>also, SUP is going to be ready for use to grab our source tree
>>pretty soon...
>
>Well, I can sort of get the gist of what "SUP" must be from that sentence
>but a little more explanation would be useful.
umm, SUP is CMU's "software update protocol" or something like that.
it's this nice, automated way to get only changed files in
various user-choosable distribution sets...
i can't do it justice, but the announcement that'll be posted
in a few days will do better...
the one drawback: only works if you're on the 'net...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass