Re: lynx-dev improving documentation

[T.E.Dickey]

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> 980803 Thomas Dickey wrote: 
> > 980803 Philip Webb wrote: 
> >> if the patch  > 50 %  the original, it's best to submit a whole new file.  
> > but if there's other changes to the same file, 
> > it's nice to know what the greatly-changed file used as a reference. 
> > I recently received a ~1M email from someone, 
> > which contained a whole distribution of a program. 
> > The actual differences were only about 200 lines (20kb). 
>   
> that's  2 % , isn't it?  not  50 %  ... 
> but i do accept your underlying point that it's useful to see what's changed. 
right - the person making the change advertised it as a major change.
it's all a matter of perspective.
  
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