This is req "1.2a", an extension of Remy Evard's req 1.2.7 to handle "areas", by John Sellens, at the University of Waterloo, and subsequently elsewhere. This version was described in an article in ";login:", the USENIX Association newsletter, vol 22 no 1, Febraury, 1997. The original req-1.2.7 and tkreq-1.10.1 are available from ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/sysadmin If you're not already using req, you should check out the alternatives, such as Jesse Vincent's fine RT Request Tracking software, from http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/ Or check out my Problem Tracking Page at http://www.generalconcepts.com/resources/tracking/ for references elsewhere. Available here are req-1.2apl3.tar.gz This is req-1.2a patchlevel 3 -- current as of December 8/1999. Fixed an ugly bug I sloppily introduced in 1.2apl2, and adds REQDEFOWNER and REQDEFAREA environment variables which should be convenient for automatically piping multiple mail aliases into separate areas in the same req system. req-1.2apl2.tar.gz - obsolete - bugs This is req-1.2a patchlevel 2 -- current as of November 15/1999. This works with Perl version 5 (previous versions of req required Perl version 4), and has a getdate command fixed for Y2000. req-1.2apl1.tar.gz - obsolete This is req-1.2a patchlevel 1 -- current as of Sept 4/1997 This contains a few configuration and build improvements to correct a mistake or two, and (hopefully) make it easier to deal with. req-1.2a.tar.gz - obsolete This is req-1.2a patchlevel 0 req-1.2.7--1.2a.patch.gz - obsolete This will patch req-1.2.7 into req-1.2a (I hope), which might be useful (or might not) if you have made local changes to req-1.2.7. Make sure you make a backup copy before trying to apply this with "patch -p < req-1.2.7--1.2a.patch.gz" reqAreas.txt.gz The text submitted for the ;login; article. tkreq-epsf Encapsulated postscript for the tkreq screenshot included as an illustration in the article req.ps.gz req.slides.ps.gz Copies of Remy's original LISA 1994 paper and presentation John Sellens February 7, 1997 last updated December 8, 1999 jsellens@generalconcepts.com as of summer/1999 jsellens@gnac.com as of summer/1999 jsellens@uunet.ca as of August/1997 jmsellens@uwaterloo.ca