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On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Jim Dutton wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer. I am curious, now that I have found, it - why are
> the bsd...mk files in the OS distributions so far out of date?

They are the date at when the system was released.  The people who
maintain them may just forget to commit them back to the other branches,
so they get stale.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major