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From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Want info on German Boot Manager thingy please
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:43:57 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.724405437@du9ds3>
References: <ricky.724300453@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> <6051@rosie.NeXT.COM>
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In <6051@rosie.NeXT.COM> sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:

>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...

>--
>Opinions expressed herein are not those of my employer.  They're not even
>mine.  They're probably wrong besides.  How did they get in here, anyway?

One "German" site for this code is ftp.uni-duisburg.de in
/pub/unix/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patches/os-bs134.uu (extract from c.u.bsd).
Admitted, this site *is* slow, but not because of sloppy management here,
but because of the gateway 'Germany.Eu.Net' which is constantly overloaded.
If you find Germany.eu.net in your traceroute, go buying a coffee in Colombia.
(Sorry, no smiley here!)

Holger
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