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From: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Any way to get patch 50000 outside U.S.?
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Date: 23 Apr 93 12:26:45 GMT
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In article <g89r4222.735560968@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) 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!

Not at all. Its just that if we go in and hack crypt in like I have, 
'official' patches later fail (if those files are included). I would just
like to see the changes (not neccesarily the crypt.c :-> ) included in the
Official Source Tree (TM).

Mark

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