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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ibmpcug!pipex!demon!gate.demon.co.uk!ronald Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: ronald@gate.demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo) References: <greg.711922033@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> <1992Jul23.213947.22807@gateway.novell.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) Subject: Article numbers (WAS Re: 386bsd 0.1 - Advice on bootstrap debugging needed.) Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@thisbe.npd.novell.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:32:03 +0000 Message-ID: <9207262125.aa21171@gate.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk Lines: 24 terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) wrote: > Chris Demetriou (cgd@agate.berkeley.edu) has patches > available for download at agate.berkeley.edu. Check out article #1912 ^^^^^^^^^ > or simply download the patched boot image for dist.fs and fixit.fs, Sigh. I've seen several articles in comp.unix.bsd tonight that refer to articles by number, and so I just *had* to reply to one. (sorry Terry, not picking on you specifically!) Please folks, articles numbers are LOCAL TO YOUR OWN MACHINE! They will be DIFFERENT on every one else's machines! So, quoting article numbers will be at best useless and at worse confusing to everyone else. If you have to refer to an article, please use the Message-ID in the header of the article that you are referring to, (e.g. Terry's article was <1992Jul23.213947.22807@gateway.novell.com> ) and your news sysadm should be able to help you work back from that to the article number as it is on your own machine. -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@demon.co.uk> <ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk> <ronald@robobar.co.uk> BTNet: +44 71 229 7741 | Brambles are the order of the day.