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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Source for the rootdisk programs. Where?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.021240.10575@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Aug18.005208.4789@seq.uncwil.edu> <1992Aug18.061057.12073@muddcs.claremont.edu> <Bt6Fz1.15n@ais.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:12:40 GMT
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- In article <Bt6Fz1.15n@ais.org> lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.061057.12073@muddcs.claremont.edu> jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
- >>(Note: I will eventually make my patches for the GNU utilities
- >>available, but it's not one of my top priorities. And before any
- >>bonehead who thinks he knows all there is to know about the GPL wants
- >>to squeak - refresh yourself on how long it took NeXT to make
- >>available their patches to the GNU stuff (gcc, in particular) to
- >>people who had *paid* them for it.)
- >>
- >
- >Do you know if your GNU patches are significantly different than Rick
- >Faith's ports of GNU stuff?
-
- To be honest, no - I don't know if he's tracked down the same problems
- I did, but it's worth checking out. :) I was more concerned with
- getting things done and out the door than trying anything intelligent
- like seeing if anyone had done all the work already. :)
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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