Re: More about Netscape Bug finder

[Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>]

Lynne L. Harrison wrote:
> 
> At 03:32 PM 6/28/97 GMT, Brian Lane wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:41:24 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >>An Email Trail from Bug Spotter to
> >>           Netscape
> >>           6:01pm  13.Jun.97.PDT The following is a copy of the
> >>           email exchange between Netscape officials and
> >
> >[rest snipped]
> >
> >  Notice that none of this exchange is signed in any way. I don't
> >doubt Netscape's claim as to what happened, but really this is just a
> >bunch of letters assembled in the right order. There's no reason to
> >trust the contents.
> 
> This reminded me to ask if anyone knows if, per their statement,
> Netscape intends to u/l a patch for the 3.x versions.  When I checked
> yesterday, I didn't see any reference to it.

Yes, we're working on a patch for 3.x.  It's somewhat harder to do than
patching 4.0 because we weren't set up to build 3.x anymore.  For some
of the weirder Unix platforms we had to reinstall older versions of
compilers and OSes.

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