Re: lynx-dev Weirdness with ncurses revs

[dickey]

> 
> Tom - 
>  
> For some reason, two attempts to email the attached to you at clark.net 
> have bounced back to me (bounce headers attached below).  BTW, traceroute 
> has no problem reaching you, so the problem may be at your end. 
>  
> This is WRT ncurses, not lynx: 
>  
>  
> Hi Tom - 
>  
> I just decided to update my ncurses 4.2 libs, and noticed something 
> weird with the patchlevel numbering in your ftp dir. 
>  
> The latest ncurses-4.2-yymmdd.patch.gz file is for 990417, but there 
> is a more recent shellscript patch of patch-4.2-990424.sh (without a 
> corresponding *.patch.gz file). 

yes - that's correct.  I didn't have any changes for 990424 (it's in beta,
and nothing that I have on my queue justified the time - I was working on
xterm and tired, so anything I would do to ncurses would make it worse). 
But a rollup patch was overdue - so that's the only thing for 990424.
>  
> Anyway, thinking that the more recent *.sh patch must have some update 
> stuff in it that couldn't be taken care of with a *.patch.gz file, I 
> grabbed the *.sh file, and a fresh, virgin copy of the 4.2 ncurses 
> distribution. 
>  
> After applying the *.sh file though, I see that the most recent entry 
> in the NEWS file is for 990417. 
>  
> So ... either the *.sh file is misnumbered (and should also be 990417), 
> of the NEWS entry for the 990424 update seems to have gotten "lost". 
>  
> I suppose it's not a biggie, but thought I'd mention it, just the same. 
>  
> Later ... 
>  
> /kim 
>  
>  
> bounce headers, FYI: 
>  
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> >Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:11:09 -0700 
> >From: Kim DeVaughn <address@hidden> 
> >To: Tom Dickey <address@hidden> 
> >Subject: Weirdness with ncurses revs 
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Thomas E. Dickey
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