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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Any way to get patch 50000 outside U.S.? Message-ID: <g89r4222.735560968@kudu> Date: 23 Apr 93 10:29:28 GMT Article-I.D.: kudu.g89r4222.735560968 References: <1r4o6uINN5su@sauna.cs.hut.fi> <murray.28.735550039@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 24 In <murray.28.735550039@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) writes: >In article <1r4o6uINN5su@sauna.cs.hut.fi> vendu@batman.cs.hut.fi (Tuomo P Venalainen) writes: >>I wonder if there is any non-US ftp site holding patch 50000. Unfortunately, >>I think there isn't. Long live the US DES-law!;-) >Could some kind soul perhaps make a 'crippled' version of this? I have >crypt.c, all I need its for the patchkit to agree that the patches have been >installed. Would it not make sense for an 'export' version to be made, with >a brain dead crypt.c that does nothing? Are you saying that other patches (ie. 'normal ones') depend on the infamous patch50000? It would be grossly unfair if any such thing were to happen anyhow! Geoff -- ============================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za=============================== Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, |#define DISCLAIMER These are my Computer Science Department, | ramblings, not the Rhodes University, RSA. | University's