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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: Error in patch 89
References: <1993Mar5.160055.17730@cm.cf.ac.uk> <CGD.93Mar5103643@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <CGD.93Mar5103643@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>that problem w/patch 89 was fixed in a later-but-named-the-same
>release of the new patches...

I don't think it is named the same.  If the results of my effort to
start again clean are any measure, the buggy patch 89 is still around,
with a different name - a name which makes it look like a better
patchset to use.  When I picked up the patches yesterday, for my clean
restart, agate.berkeley.edu had two similarly named files with the same
dates on them:

	pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit/patchset84-110.tar

and

	pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit/patchset84-110-LATEST.tar

Being gullable, I presumed that "LATEST" meant what it said.  I took it.
I used it last night.  I got the reject file for

	/usr/src/usr.bin/awk/config.h

The reject resulted from trying to change

	#define HAVE_STRTOD	1

to

	#define HAVE_STRTOD	0

when it had that value already.  Tonight, I'll try again with the file
that isn't the "LATEST".

>(so most people didn't see it... 8-)

It's nice to know I'm not "just one of the crowd."  Maybe a better name
could be used for the "LATEST" file on agate, like

	patchset84-110-POISONOUS-DO-NOT-USE.tar

Just a thought :-)
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