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Subject: Re: Anyone converted xdr_float.c for 386BSD?
Message-ID: <1993Mar4.225819.22430@coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 4 Mar 93 22:58:19 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
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In article <CONKLIN.93Mar4104604@ngai.kaleida.com> conklin@kaleida.com writes:
>The sunrpc code on ref is based on rpc 3.9, while the version in
>/usr/src/lib is based on rpc 4.0.  I made my diffs against the 
>version in /usr/src/lib.
>
>This was submitted for the patchkit long ago:
>

At the time, I was only accepting patches to the basic 386BSD distribution.
There are too many things that need fixing in the stock stuff to worry
about trying to fix everyone's favorite package.

However, you can try and convince Jordan to accept patches for non-standard
programs...


Nate

(It's hard to apply patches to non-existant sources, since RPC is something
that most people don't have installed)
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