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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: DECpc woes - new dist.fs & fixit.fs needed!
Message-ID: <1993Mar12.210601.7668@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 21:06:01 GMT
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In article <JKH.93Mar12200545@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>
>Use a distribution with Julian's scsi drivers built-in.  Anyone offering
>a new dist.fs.Z?  Note: Please consider gzip!

I'm going to be offering it, but it's in BETA test right now.  

Since gzip hasn't been widely distributed (yet), I think an uncompressed
version of it would be better, since the people who need the new bootables
aren't running 386BSD (yet), so my preference in uncompressed/unzipped.


Nate
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