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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!park.uvsc.edu!mday From: mday@park.uvsc.edu (Matt Day) Subject: Re: O'Reilly 4.4BSD-Lite CD-ROM differences Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 23:06:46 GMT Message-ID: <CtvpJD.3IE@park.uvsc.edu> References: <CtBrKw.KGD@park.uvsc.edu> Lines: 25 In article <CtBrKw.KGD@park.uvsc.edu> mday@park.uvsc.edu (Matt Day) writes: > My 4.4BSD-Lite CD arrived from O'Reilly today. Joy! > > Before I blew away my hard disk copy of the stuff (from ftp.cdrom.com), > I thought, what the heck, let's just check this CD out first. > Unfortunately, I discovered that the files listed below were different, > and it looks like O'Reilly is on the incorrect side. All differences > seem to be related to control characters getting munged somehow. > Specifically, it looks like ^M characters were deleted and ^Z > characters turned into spaces. (There might be other forms of > munging--I didn't examine the results exhaustively.) I smell the > stench of DOS here. Users of these files, beware! > > [...] I was incorrect when I said that it looks like O'Reilly is on the incorrect side, above. The O'Reilly 4.4BSD-Lite CD-ROM contains correct data. I was seeing incorrect data because of my broken iso9660 file system software. The stench of DOS was in my software, not on the CD. :-( I'm sorry for wasting everybody's time -- let me try to make it up to O'Reilly with a free plug: buy the O'Reilly 4.4BSD-Lite kit! It's high quality stuff! My thanks go to Dave Tweten and Kirk McKusick for helping me get to the bottom of this.