Mon, 7 Nov 1994 00:48:40 +0100
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Note that SCAN is one of the new features of the code that will be
eventually released as 1.8b. It was written 2 months after 1.8a was
released and is thus not included in the "normal" 1.8a that most VM sites
are running. It is however included in the XA-exploitation update that
CUNY and a couple other sites are running. It is also standard in the
VMS, unix and Windows versions, since they were released after SCAN was
written and I didn't see any reason not to include it. But if your 1.8a
server says there is no SCAN command, it doesn't mean something is wrong,
it just means it is running the "normal" 1.8a. The reason there hasn't
been any new release for 10 months is that we have to "freeze" the code
for about 1-2 months before releasing a new version, so that the new
version can be beta-tested seriously. During this period, fixes can of
course be made but new functions or major changes are not allowed, since
that in turn would require new testing and we would end up never
releasing anything, since there would always be some new, untested code
in the distribution. Because of the VMS, unix and Windows ports, it has
been necessary to make a number of major changes to the code which are
not compatible with beta-testing. This doesn't mean that improvements
haven't been made, we've just not been able to make them widely
available. The Windows version is expected to go beta next week and
hopefully we should be able to start a beta-test phase after Christmas.
These changes are a one-time thing and we should be back on the regular
two releases a year schedule after that.
Eric
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