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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: MicroNet, teac and st
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.171105.6033@servalan.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 17:11:05 GMT
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jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:

>The other driver, "teac" also supposedly has an expire date, but if you re-
>install the driver, then it'll unexpire itself. I also have a copy of this
>driver, Version 1.01 beta TEST.

   That's the one I have.  I'm not sure it actually has an expire date in it.
The reason I say this, is that 1. strings on /etc/boot.d/teac shows no sign
of any such message (but, of course the msg could be encrypted) and 2. doing
an nm on the same file shows that the teac driver nowhere references as 
external variables the kernel's time variable, or indeed seem to reference 
anything it shouldn't be looking at in the kernel.  Has anyone actually seen
this version (1.01) expire?
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