2. "RE: good news/bad news/weird news"
In response to message #1
>> it's not as if >>software spoils like fruit, > >It can. Bitrot is a thing that happens from time to time; it might be >advisable to check the checksums on the binaries for the runtimes. >Reviewing the databases is probably a good idea as well.
DCF doesn't have binaries, it's just a pile of scripts. (Similarly, the databases it maintains - which does seem to be the problem here - are just flat files parsed thereby.)
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