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Re: scribe v.6 and database files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Thu Jul 14 22:46:50 1988

From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 06 Jul 88 10:59:35 -0400.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 22:46:05 EDT
> From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> 
> It seems that Scribe v.6 won't use database files in the current
> directory unless explicitly directed to do so via an @use(database
> "...") command.
> 1) is this documented in the release notes?
> 2) where can I get a copy of the release notes/manual updates?
> 3) I also find that the database name must end in a / for things to
> work.  Is this documented, also?

The answer to all your questions is "I don't know."  The last time we
changed versions of scribe, Eric Albert did a thorough examination of
the changes involved.  This time, I haven't even seen documentation
for Scribe v. 6.  

Dan: any clues?

-- Henry
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