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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
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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.