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From: pr@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.UK (Peter Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Difficulties getting X.V11R3 going on a Vaxstation 2000
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Date: 10 Feb 89 17:04:54 GMT
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Summary: Is the revised sg for Ultrix 2.2 only available as binary?
References: <8902041633.AA04521@EXPIRE.LCS.MIT.EDU>

As advised on xpert, I picked up the new sg.o from the xstuff server.  
However, the person trying to build a new Unix observed that all three 
of
	- the standard distributed binary
	- the result of compiling the distributed source
	- the binary from xstuff
are non-trivially different.  He also expressed some reservations about 
splicing an arbitrary and unrecognisable bit pattern into the middle of a 
Unix kernel (:-), but tried it anyway and it does not seem to work.  It 
gets as far as printing the Worksystem banner and then stops.  The disc 
still chatters occassionally, but the system does not respond to the 
console or rlogins.

It may be possible to reverse-engineer the changes, but obviously it would
help if we could get hold of source or source diffs.  I checked the index 
for etc on xstuff and could not see anything obvious;  might you be able to 
release the diffs?

- Peter Robinson.