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diff --git a/src/util/send-pr/README b/src/util/send-pr/README deleted file mode 100644 index b479179555..0000000000 --- a/src/util/send-pr/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ - send-pr - sends bug reports to a central support site - -`send-pr' uses electronic mail to submit support questions and -software bugs to a central site. No piece of software is perfect, and -software organizations understand this `send-pr' is designed to allow -users who have problems to submit reports of these problems to sites -responsible for supporting the software in question, in a defined form -which can be read by an electronically managed database. - -`send-pr' is part of a suite of programs known collectively as GNATS, -an acronym for Problem Report Management System. GNATS consists of -several programs which, used in concert, formulate and partially -administer a database of Problem Reports, or PRs, at a central support -site. A PR goes through several states in its lifetime; GNATS tracks -the PR and all information associated with it through each state and -finally acts as an archive for PRs which have been resolved. - -The same engine can be used to submit bugs to any number of support -sites by setting up aliases for each of them; `send-pr' error-checks -each PR as it is sent to be sure that the category specified matches a -category supported by the site in question. - -`send-pr' invokes an editor on a problem report template (after trying -to fill in some fields with reasonable default values). When you exit -the editor, `send-pr' sends the completed form to the support site. -At the support site, the PR is assigned a unique number and is stored -in the GNATS database according to its category and customer-id. GNATS -automatically replies with an acknowledgement, citing the category and -the PR number. - -See the Texinfo file `send-pr.texi' or the Info file `send-pr.info' -for detailed installation and usage information. - -See the file MANIFEST for a list of the files which should have -accompanied this distribution. - -See `send-pr.texi', `send-pr.info', or the file INSTALL for the -installation procedure for `send-pr'. - - -Copyright (c) 1993, Free Software Foundation, Inc. -See the file COPYING for copyright information concerning this -distribution and all its components. |