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NT 4.0 SERVICE PACK #3 MODIFIED 30-SEP-1997! JFC!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Joe We are Borg Foster
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
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Hey all, I just did my weekly scan of the master Microsoft patch list at
<ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/index.txt> and guess what I
found! That's right, ladies and germs, a mutant NT4.0SP3 for Intel and
Alpha CPUs! JFC! Check this out from my FTP session to ftp.microsoft.com:

ftp> dir NT4S*.EXE
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
----------   1 owner    group        25730312 Sep 30 15:33 NT4SP3_A.EXE
----------   1 owner    group        18423896 Sep 30 15:32 NT4SP3_I.EXE
----------   1 owner    group        14543096 Sep 30 15:33 NT4SYM3A.EXE
----------   1 owner    group        23108736 Sep 30 15:32 NT4SYM3I.EXE
226 Transfer complete.
292 bytes received in 0.33 seconds (0.88 Kbytes/sec)

Here's the previous versions of the SP3 for Intel CPUs:

 Volume in drive C is FAT16-2GB
 Volume Serial Number is 2A5F-1CF1
 Directory of C:\DOWNLOAD

nt4sp3_i exe    18,420,440 06-08-97   3:41p
nt4sym3i exe    23,105,264 08-03-97   3:35p
        2 file(s)     41,525,704 bytes
                     270,008,320 bytes free

What was changed!? Why not just put up a hotfix!! Mother-F---ers!!!
If any of you were waiting for a good reason to get 56K, here it is!

-- 
Joe Foster <mailto:joe*AT*bftsi0.gate.net> Yes Colin, I *still* work for BFTSI!
WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above        They're   coming  to
because  my cats have  apparently  learned to type.        take CJ3 away, ha ha!
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From: Joe "We are Borg" Foster <joe@bftsi0.UUCP>
Subject: NT 4.0 SERVICE PACK #3 MODIFIED 30-SEP-1997! JFC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1997/10/05
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