Date   : Fri, 14 Jan 1983 02:16:30 EST (Fri)
From   : Rick Conn <rconn@brl.arpa>
Subject: ZCPR2 Release

        I have just completed utility development on ZCPR2 and am
about  to devote time exclusively to finishing the documentation.
This is all that is left before release, which is  currently  set
for  Monday or Tuesday.  With luck, the schedule will be met this
time.

        It has come to my attention that at least one person  has
discovered the archives used on MIT-MC to store the test versions
of the ZCPR2 utilities and ZCPR2 itself  and  has  downloaded  at
lease  some  of them.  Please stop doing this immediately.  ZCPR2
has not yet been released, and if distribution is already  begin-
ning,  I  can  see  a lot of problems coming up.  Principal among
these is the fact that there have been several test  versions  of
the utilities in various states of development with the same ver-
sion numbers.  If these get out, then people  will  not  know  if
they  are  running the right version or not and a lot of time and
effort can be wasted in fixing non-existant problems on  software
that  has  already been fixed.  The only sure way to correct this
problem is to change all the version numbers of  all  the  utili-
ties,  and this could take days, delaying the release even furth-
er.

        Hence, if you have downloaded any of the ZCPR2  utilities
or  ZCPR2 itself, I recommend that you destoy all copies and wait
for the release.  It is only a few days away now.

                Rick