[NTLK] unsuscribe

[Michael Puig]

Morgan Aldridge wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> ~~~ On 2009/12/14 23:55, Grant Hutchinson at grant at splorp.com wrote ~~~
>>
>>     
>>> Just to clarify this ... the 71J059 patch does *not* actually
>>> supersede the 710031 patch, as the 710031 patch does contain some
>>> minor fixes which are not included in the 71J059 patch. As Eckhart
>>> notes on his site ... "The functionality of patch 710031 might at a
>>> later point be merged into a new patch."
>>>
>>> http://40hz.org/Pages/Patch%2071J059
>>>
>>>       
>> My head hurts!   That quote comes from a paragraph that says "Patch 710031:
>> This patch needs to be removed before the 71J059 patch can be applied (see
>> below)."
>>
>> So does that mean that in switching to the new patch we're losing some
>> functionality or other?  Any way to know what it is?
>>     
>
> Yes, we're losing a fix to a "bug in the Newton OS 2.1's Dates
> program, where found dates cannot be printed or faxed." Avi Drissman
> wrote a patch for this bug
> <http://www.drissman.com/avi/newton/DatesFindBugfix/DFBReadMe.html>
> and Paul Guyot turned it into a System Update 710031 (until Eckhart's
> hard work, the "only system update that was not designed by Apple").
> It can still be downloaded from <http://www.kallisys.com/>, but the
> documentation on it has to be dug up on the Internet Wayback Machine:
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20051023232249/www.kallisys.com/newton/rustines/en>
>
> Morgan Aldridge
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