Henry Spencer:
The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu in file pub/c-news/c-news.Z (a shell
archive) or pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z (a tar archive).  FTP during our peak
hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is not encouraged.

The current C News release date is 20-Feb-1993.  It is referred to as the
"Performance Release."  From the README.new file:

   This is the 20 Feb 1993 Performance Release of C News, a minor update
   to the 2 May 1992 P.R. that just fixes some installation problems and
   a couple of annoying bugs.  Everything that was in the "known.problems"
   file on UUNET as of 17 Feb 1993 has been fixed, in particular, as well
   as a couple of things that were noticed after those fixes went out.

(It is also available on UUNET as ~/news/cnews/c-news.Z or c-news.tar.Z.
See also the files ~/news/cnews/README and ~/news/cnews/known.problems;
known.problems reports installation problems and bugs that have been
discovered in the current version.  It also includes fixes to those
problems.)

[Formerly, a complete set of patches could also be found on ftp.cs.toronto.edu
in the directory pub/c-news/patches; however, the Performance Release was a
*new* *release* , not just an update to earlier ones -- there are no patches
to bring an earlier release up to date with it, you have to get the whole
release.  Major reorganizations, initiated in the Performance Release and to
be completed in the forthcoming Cleanup Release (see below), make release of
patches against earlier versions impractical.]

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