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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stability Vs. Fatality
Date: 16 Jul 1996 10:51:28 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:

> : The whole idea behind 2.1.5 is to allow users to get fixes for
> : existing bugs without simultaneously getting lots of new ones :-)
> 
> As a user of a 3Com 3C509 who has read the KNOWNBUG.TXT file in the
> 2.1.5-RELEASE FTP directory,I have to wonder about this!<g>

Of course, you won't get bug fixes that have _not been made at all_.
If there's no bugfix for it in the -current sources, there's no fix in
2.1.5.

-- 
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. ;-)