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From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: BSD bugs -- round 2
Message-ID: <29755@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 20:50:26 GMT
References: <1807@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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In article <1807@cooper.cooper.EDU> hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner ) writes:
> 3) However, I still do not understand how these kinds of bugs
>    could be distributed.  My typical development cycle goes:

I think Chris Torek pointed out that producing a verifiably working program
takes a lot of time, which CSRG doesn't have -- they are too busy working on
4.4BSD.

> 4) How can we obtain the correct sources?  No one has yet answered 
>    this question.

Getting the current version from Berkeley won't help, because they don't run
4.3 any more.  I think your only choice is to fix the bugs yourself.

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