Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site turing.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!turing!play From: play@turing.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources,net.games.hack Subject: hack distribution Message-ID: <255@turing.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 00:41:17 EST Article-I.D.: turing.255 Posted: Sun Feb 10 00:41:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:48:08 EST Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.sources:2561 net.games.hack:169 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL I just received the 25th letter telling me not to post updates as simple diffs; people change the hack source themselves and have a lot of trouble applying the diffs to their modified sources. So next time it must be a context diff. But the previous simple diff already produced an article larger than notesfile can handle, and context diffs will be considerably larger. My question is: what do you prefer for version 1.0.2: a context diff (280K) or the entire source again (400K)? [For comparison: a simple diff between versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 is 75K.] I can also compactify the whole source mechanically, throwing away layout and comments and shortening the identifiers; this might reduce the whole thing to perhaps 150K. Reply by mail (and certainly not to net.sources).