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From: Simon Karpen <slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 15:55:06 -0400
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deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes:

> If I remember right, didn't Solaris have problems in locale/nls's too?
> I bet a few operating systems still have some shakeups coming from
> there.

Linux also had similar problems with NLS at one point.
It was fixed some time ago, and has been fixed in all current
distributions at least since jan/feb. 

-- 
Simon Karpen	
karpes@rpi.edu	  slk@acm.rpi.edu	slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu
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