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1.1     ! root        1: 
        !             2: From: shane@mit-ajax (K. Shane Hartman)
        !             3: I have created a mechanism for automatically updating your Gnu Emacs
        !             4: sources from the sources maintained on mit-prep. To take advantage of this
        !             5: mechanism you must have a connection to the internet and do the following:
        !             6: 
        !             7: Obtain the modified version of rcp from mit-prep. This version is upward
        !             8: compatible with standard rcp. The relevant files are:
        !             9: mit-prep:/u2/emacs/rcp.binary (compiled for vax 4.2)
        !            10: mit-prep:/u2/emacs/rcp.1c
        !            11: mit-prep:/u2/emacs/RCP.README
        !            12: You can use ftp to obtain the files or rcp (the old version will work for
        !            13: this, just do 'rcp mit-prep.rcp:/u2/emacs/rcp.binary rcp.binary' ...
        !            14: 
        !            15: If you have a source license, /u2/emacs/rcp.diff may be useful: it is
        !            16: a diff of ucb rcp and the modified rcp.
        !            17: 
        !            18: Replace your current copy of rcp with rcp.binary (it must suid to root),
        !            19: but keep the old copy around just in case (e.g. rename to rcp.ucb) and
        !            20: install the man page.
        !            21: 
        !            22: Now connect to your toplevel emacs directory (which contains src, etc, dbx,
        !            23: lisp, and info) and do:
        !            24: 
        !            25: rcp -ruvp "mit-prep.rcp:/u2/emacs/dist/*" .
        !            26: 
        !            27: The new options: v - verbose, u - update, and p - preserve write dates.
        !            28: The rcp 'account' supports only the rcp command.
        !            29: 
        !            30: Once you have synchronized with the write dates for the files on prep, the
        !            31: above command is sufficient to update all and only those files that have
        !            32: changed on prep with respect to your sources. For this scheme to work, you
        !            33: must maintain the sources on your own machine and be aware that if you
        !            34: change a source on your machine, then rcp can be fooled.

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