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From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: BUGS: and what to do ?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 19:58:57 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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I have found (and reported here) 
a bug in disklable which prevents 
writing new boot sectors to the hard
disk. However, I had no responses. This 
might seem like a dumb question but
what do I do now:

a) fix it myself and publish here
b) post a fix to who ?
c) ??

as a fix to the "guts" of the disklabel
utility is a potentially dangerous 
one I would like some confirmation
discussion before proceeding.

Im sure this info is on the CD
somewhere but Ive lent it 
to soemone for a while and
cant get access to it.

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