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Article #118Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
From: Chris Phillips
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 19:11
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 19:11
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!hcr!chrisp 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 Lines: 24