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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Any way to get patch 50000 outside U.S.?
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Date: 23 Apr 93 10:29:28 GMT
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In <murray.28.735550039@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) writes:

>In article <1r4o6uINN5su@sauna.cs.hut.fi> vendu@batman.cs.hut.fi (Tuomo P Venalainen) writes:

>>I wonder if there is any non-US ftp site holding patch 50000. Unfortunately,
>>I think there isn't. Long live the US DES-law!;-)

>Could some kind soul perhaps make a 'crippled' version of this? I have 
>crypt.c, all I need its for the patchkit to agree that the patches have been 
>installed. Would it not make sense for an 'export' version to be made, with 
>a brain dead crypt.c that does nothing?

Are you saying that other patches (ie. 'normal ones') depend on
the infamous patch50000?  It would be grossly unfair if any such
thing were to happen anyhow!

Geoff


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