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From: "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: How to Download From PAL ?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 14:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-05-08T14:13:05-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48213b5c-ef61-4021-a107-83233ab719a8@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pct17q$rf2$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 3:27:40 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> …  The CDs were curated 
> back in the day, with corrections and updates being applied,

Yes, that is precisely why later editions are of less value than earlier editions when looking for date-boundaries on when an event occurred.

> so the most 
> recent version has the best code. Using an older version just gives you 
> known and fixed bugs. :-)

They also have updated copyright notices.

> I checked a number of different versions of these disks and didn't find 
> anything significant on older ones that was omitted from the latest one.

Copyright notices were the still-very-significant thing for which I was looking.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-08 11:33 How to Download From PAL ? patrick
2018-05-08 12:29 ` Stéphane Rivière
2018-05-08 12:41   ` patrick
2018-05-08 14:15     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-08 15:37       ` Lucretia
2018-05-08 15:45         ` Lucretia
2018-05-08 16:17           ` Lucretia
2018-05-08 16:24           ` patrick
2018-05-08 20:23             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-08 16:28           ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-08 20:27             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-08 21:13               ` Dan'l Miller [this message]
2018-05-08 20:22       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-08 16:29   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-08 17:02     ` Dirk Craeynest
2018-05-22 17:12       ` Blady
2018-05-08 20:17   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-08 20:32     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-09 21:34       ` Randy Brukardt
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