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Subject: Re: new sup server
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:08:42 -0800
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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I wrote:

> In several attempts spread over the past few months, I have never
> yet succeeded in getting any of the sup mirrors to give me an intact
> cvs tree.  Invariably, they delete some of my perfectly good files,
> without replacing them later on.  As an example, sup5 is currently
> (and repeatably) doing this to me:
>
> [bad stuff elided]

I'm following up my own posting to report that, thanks to a lot of
help from Nate and Dima, the problems I reported about sup5 are
now completely solved.  It works perfectly now, and I encourage
people to use it.

Let's hear it for the good guys!
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth