Subject: Re: AAAAAAAARGH! Solve our SUP problems!
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@cloud9.net>
From: David Gluss <david@pure.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/12/1995 09:58:10
> 
> Would it be possible for those nitwits out there who still refuse to use -o
> (or "old" in their supfiles) to please begin doing so?  It would be nice to
> be able to SUP again, so I can build another snapshot -- or does nobody find
> binary snapshots useful?

Sorry.  Since this is the first mention I've seen that I should use "old",
I am a nitwit.  From my scan of the sources and docs though it would seem
that "old" would just increase the amount of work the sup server is doing,
and probably needlessly.  

>From README.sup:

>>This supfile can also set some options. The "old" option tells sup
>>to check all files for changes, not just those that are newer than the
>>last sup update.

DG