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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4797 comp.os.386bsd.misc:823 comp.os.386bsd.development:1169 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!park.uvcc.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: [ANSWER to question] How to format a floppy for 386bsd Message-ID: <1993Sep2.174803.29376@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <MYCROFT.93Sep2025505@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 17:48:03 GMT Lines: 29 In article <MYCROFT.93Sep2025505@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >In article <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu> >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > > [...] a patch that NetBSD has not integrated, even though it was > posted on 05 Nov 1992. > >This is worded in such a way as to give people the impression that we >either don't pay attention or don't care. We do. However, we >generally do not have time to keep up on news; if people want patches >incorporated, they should send them directly to us, or we may miss >them. Actually, it was worded in such a way as to get someone to go to an archive and grab it and integrate it (it requires a header and a floppy driver change, besides the format program itself). For many reasons (well known to others, Charles included), I can't make the code changes myself and then make them available (be assured, I've been able to format floppies on all my machines for 9 months now, and the format program has been linked against real shared libraries without any Sun/BSD4.4 code in them for 3 of those months -- God I hate politics!). Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.