From: Chuck Murcko <chuck@n2k.com>
Message-Id: <199701101850.NAA02309@spudboy.telebase.com>
Subject: Re: ApacheWeek is killing me!
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:50:02 -0500 (EST)
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 "rasmus@mail1.bellglobal.com" at Jan 10, 97 01:41:02 pm
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rasmus@mail1.bellglobal.com liltingly intones:
> 
> I've been flooded with complaints about the fact that the 
> "ibm" -> "www.ibm.com" proxy patch I contributed doesn't patch cleanly
> into 1.2b4.  It actually does patch cleanly, but I suspect people are
> cutting and pasting it from their browser window and then run patch without
> -l.  I'll fix up the patch and add some helpful hints, but I can see this 
> being an ongoing and everlasting problem.  I'm tempted to remove my name and
> email address from the patch, but that would just mean the messages would 
> end up in the bugs mailbox.
> 
> I don't have a suggested solution for it.  I agree that the right place for
> the patch is in the contrib dir, I just wish there was some way to maintain
> the patches in the contrib dir without having to fix them every time someone
> adds a line of code somewhere in any of the files that the patches modify.
> 
> Anyway, could somebody please replace the netscapehost.patch file in the
> contrib directory with the following:
> 
Done.

chuck
Chuck Murcko	N2K Inc.	Wayne PA	chuck@telebase.com
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