Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!ukma!rayssd!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Installing FIXDISK (was Re: UNIXpc Fixdisk 2 to appear...)
Summary: Nope, it's the official one
Message-ID: <1079@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 31 Jan 90 18:30:37 GMT
References: <592@gnosys.svle.ma.us> <13572@cbnews.ATT.COM> <1074@icus.islp.ny.us> <19926@ditka.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <19926@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
|>In article <1074@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us I write:
|>>Trust me folks, the FIXDISK2.0+IN that appears in the osu-cis archives is
|>>fine.  It was send to me from the person at AT&T pretty much reponsible for
|>>the majority of the fixes (at least the kernel ones).
|>
|>Lenny, was this the early release we both got in early December?  If
|>so, it may not be exactly the same as the floppy version coming from
|>the Hotline.  It may only be a minor difference, but somebody said
[...]
Nope, I got mine from uucp (directly from AT&T) 3.51m, 3 days after it
was released.  It's the official one.

|>and not replace uucico.  The pre-release we got (well, the one I got)
|>quite happily nuked my HDB uucico.
|>
I would have preferred the *option* to install a "fix" but at least it was
_smart_ enough to save the old in file.OLD.   For the most part I installed
it by hand ... forget the UA.

-Lenny
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