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From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] ANNOUNCE: PATCHKIT-0.2.1 RELEASED
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In article <1993Feb13.235657.1686@coe.montana.edu> osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) writes:
>Available now on 
>ref.tfs.com:~ftp/usr/src/patchkit-latest/ 
>
>Available on
>agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit
>
>This version is a cleaned up version of the 0.2 kit.  The only additions
>being a patch Rich Murphey made for the BELL to work in X, and a couple
>of patches Julian created to make adding new devices drivers easier. 
>However, as Jordan stated in an earlier posting, this version is now the
>"official" version.

I forgot to add, this version also includes a patch from Jordan
Hubbard to fix the com driver to work under the new select interface.

Now you can run X without having to install any other drivers.
(Though I still recommend Chris's for fast serial stuff, since
the stock drivers don't work well at high speeds)


Nate
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