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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OSI transport
Date: 4 May 1996 20:39:09 GMT
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robert@gar.no (Robert Andersson) wrote:

> Is anyone using, maintaining, hacking or otherwise doing work with this
> part of FreeBSD?  We are considering basing some work on this code, and
> it would be great to get in touch with other OSI TP users/programmers.

Sad news for you: it has been dropped from the development sources
lately, due to an apparent lack of people willing to maintain it.
(The sources have been kept compilable, but nevertheless drifted off
into a non-functional state.)

You are quite welcome to maintain them if you want. ;)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)