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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ? In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of Tue, 7 Sep 1993 02: 42:24 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep7144315@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <25e2k5$pj8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCCx818.9yL@netcom.com> <JKH.93Sep7013547@whisker.lotus.ie> <hastyCCyq6o.365@netcom.com> Distribution: world Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 14:43:15 GMT Lines: 18 >My understanding for both FreeBSD and NetBSD-0.9 that db files >conform to the new db files format which of course are incompatible >with the old version. So in the case of XS3, if someone releases This is true, but if this is your only problem then it should certainly be possible to compile up an XS3 that will work on *both* platforms. > Was XS3 included in your CDROM distribution? We haven't rolled that yet (next couple of weeks), so it's not too late to do so if you have no objections (I don't think XFree86 2.0 is going to be out by then!). Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie