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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: 1st time w/patchkit?
Message-ID: <1993Mar20.002652.29899@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 00:26:52 GMT
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In article <C45uB3.H3H@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>
>Can some kind soul point me to THE starting-point document for
>upgrading 0.1 SAFELY and CLEANLY with the patch-kits?
>              ------     -------

The Bible?  Prayer and fasting work for me. :-)

Actually, starting with pathckit-0.2.1, you can SAFELY and CLEANLY install
deinstall all of the patches.  The only gotcha in patchkit-0.2.1 is a 
patch problem, not a upgrade problem.  Patch00083 causes some grief with
certain (many) keyboard controllers, and should be removed for most
machines.

However, I have heard rumors that the next version of the patchkit will
have a *real* fix for this.  I have also heard *rumors* that the
patchkit is in testing right now.   We can hope that it will be released
sometime in the next week or so.


Nate
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