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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ? Message-ID: <hastyCD00yz.FII@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <JKH.93Sep7013547@whisker.lotus.ie> <hastyCCyq6o.365@netcom.com> <JKH.93Sep7144315@whisker.lotus.ie> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 19:32:59 GMT Lines: 34 In article <JKH.93Sep7144315@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>My understanding for both FreeBSD and NetBSD-0.9 that db files >>conform to the new db files format which of course are incompatible >>with the old version. So in the case of XS3, if someone releases > >This is true, but if this is your only problem then it should >certainly be possible to compile up an XS3 that will work on *both* >platforms. Perhaps, a native build under NetBSD-0.9 will not run under FreeBSD unless I link the server "old-style". The point is that a couple of builds will have to be generated and tested on both FreeBSD and NetBSD. > >> Was XS3 included in your CDROM distribution? > >We haven't rolled that yet (next couple of weeks), so it's not too >late to do so if you have no objections (I don't think XFree86 2.0 >is going to be out by then!). Please do include XS3 as part of your distribution in a sense it is our little jewel :-) Cheers, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming