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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!ucthpx!casper.cs.uct.ac.za!Grondar.its.uct.ac.za!murray From: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Any way to get patch 50000 outside U.S.? Message-ID: <murray.29.735568005@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> Date: 23 Apr 93 12:26:45 GMT Article-I.D.: ucthpx.murray.29.735568005 References: <1r4o6uINN5su@sauna.cs.hut.fi> <murray.28.735550039@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <g89r4222.735560968@kudu> Sender: news@cs.uct.ac.za (news) Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 27 In article <g89r4222.735560968@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) 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! Not at all. Its just that if we go in and hack crypt in like I have, 'official' patches later fail (if those files are included). I would just like to see the changes (not neccesarily the crypt.c :-> ) included in the Official Source Tree (TM). Mark -- Mark Murray (ITS/MURRAY) \+/ Internet: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za User support services +X+ Voice: +27 21 650 3025 Information Technology Services, /+\ This .sig is umop ap!sdn University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa