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From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Want info on German Boot Manager thingy please
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Date: 15 Dec 92 02:13:44 GMT
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ricky@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr RS Mcconachy) writes:
> A few months back (not long after the release of 0.1 386BSD in fact)
> a German getleman posted a note to this group about his boot manager
> program.  

The program you seek is "os-bs.asm", a turbo assembler program that creates an  
MS-DOS com file that writes a menuing boot record.  I ftp'd it from a site
in Germany (a very slow site, I might add...) but I didn't save the site name.
The author is Thomas Wolfram.

-sam
ps I should probably add that I am unable to mail this...

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