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From: chrisp@hcr.UUCP (Chris Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.sources.d,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
Message-ID: <2244@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 19:11:54 GMT
References: <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> <1989Sep30.060807.15103@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: chrisp@spinor.UUCP (Chris Phillips)
Organization: HCR Corporation
	Toronto, Ontario
	Canada
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In article <1989Sep30.060807.15103@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.UUCP writes:
>In article <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) writes:
>>	Are the BSD sources, archived @uunet, among other places,
>>	the sources to actual, working, tested programs?
>
>Uh, this may come as a surprise, but universities generally do not have
>quality-control departments.  Alas.  And considering some of the screwups
>that come out of places that *have* QC departments, like Sun, it should
>not be surprising that free software is sometimes worth what it costs.
>(Fortunately, it's *usually* worth more.)
>-- 
>"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu


I guess that the original question still needs an answer. Yes that bug
is in code as delivered from bsd.

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