# NEWS: Patch Archive updated [SERVER]

Alex Stewart (riche@crl.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 08:54:23 PDT

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    Well, I'll be the first to admit I'd gotten rather far behind in my
    maintenance of the MOO patch archive, but after most of a night's worth of
    work, I think it's finally back (more or less) up to date!  I scrounged
    through my own back archives of the MOO-Cows list and pulled out all the
    patches I could find which appeared to be ready-for-prime-time, and have added
    them to the archive.  In addition, a couple of bug-fix changes for my pAS1 and
    pAS3 patches have been applied, as mentioned in my previous message on that
    subject.  Lemme know if I missed anything and I'll try to get it up too.

    Following is a listing of the patches which have been added or modified in the
    Semi Official MOO Patch Repository and Archive (all of the following are in
    the MOO-1.7.8 directory):

      moo-1.7.8-bib.patch         - Patch to add bytes_in_buffer() builtin
      moo-1.7.8-chrasc.patch      - Patch to add chr() and asc() builtins
      moo-1.7.8-cnotify.patch     - Patch to add cnotify() builtin
      moo-1.7.8-fBSD.patch        - Patch to compile under FreeBSD 2.0.5
      moo-1.7.8-pAS1.patch        - Patch to allow non-suspending read() calls
      moo-1.7.8-regex.txt         - Bug fix for regexp matching
                                    (*Recommended*)

    (the regex patch is just the thing Pavel posted a while back about checking
    for a -2 response from the matching routine.  As it mentions it's by no means
    a full fix for all the regexp problems with 1.7.8, but it's still worth
    applying, at least until 1.7.9 comes out of alpha.)

    For a full list of all the patches available, please take a look at the README
    or index.html files contained in the appropriate directories at the FTP site.

    PLEASE NOTE:  Once patches for 1.7.9 start being made I am planning on phasing
    out (and getting rid of) the 1.7.7 patch directory.  IF ANYONE IS STILL
    USING PATCHES FROM THAT DIRECTORY, please let me know what they are and what you
    needed to do to get them to work, so I can move them to the 1.7.8 or
    1.7.9 directory before getting rid of the other 1.7.7 stuff.  If anyone is
    still using a 1.7.7 server, well, all I can say is "get with the times", I
    guess..

    As always, the Semi Official MOO Patch Repository and Archive is located at:

      ftp.crl.com in the /users/ro/riche/MOO/patches directory.

    Those wishing to access it (and my other MOO stuff) via web browser should
    take a look at:
      ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/ro/riche/MOO/index.html

    -R
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         Alex Stewart - riche@crl.com - Richelieu @ Diversity University MOO
                             http://www.crl.com/~riche/
                "Difficult answers lead to intelligent questions."