1$Id: MAINT,v 1.4 2000/04/11 02:43:51 christos Exp $ 2 3Maintenance notes: 4 5I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help, 6but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following: 7 8- Don't change the version numbers! 9 10If your changes are extensive, I will have to work hard to 11integrate them into my version. If you check it into SCCS locally, 12the version numbers will likely be kept. IF you check it into RCS 13or CVS locally, please use -k to keep the version numbers, and 14please use branch deltas (1.21.1, 1.21.2, ...). If you don't do 15this, I will likely be unable to use your changes; life's just too 16short. 17 18- Do not distribute changed versions. 19 20People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions 21of the file command for FTP, then the "archie" server finds and publishes 22the hacked version, and people all over the world get copies of it. 23Within a day or two I am getting email from around the world 24asking me why "my" file command won't compile!!! Needless to say this 25detracts from the limited time I have available to work on the actual 26software. Therefore I ask you again to please NOT distribute 27your changed version. 28 29 30Thank you for your assistance and cooperation. 31 32Christos Zoulas 33christos@astron.com 34