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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: bounce buffers
To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:21:36 -0700 (MST)
Cc: mrl@teleport.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604261922.MAA08451@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at Apr 26, 96 12:22:42 pm
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> 	Basically it's one of the warts that the PC architecture as 
> 	developed in it's old age.  This is a natural effect of 
> 	growing *far* beyond your initial design.

Or bad assumptions in the initial design, anyway -- the same reason
DOS disks are addressed by C/H/S instead of by absolute sector at
the INT 21 and INT 13 interface level.

> Jim Dennis,
> System Administrator,
> McAfee Associates

Hmmmmm... McAfee...

Recently, there was a question on using a program under BSD to virus
check DOS partitions and programs and downloads, etc..

Any chance of a BSD port of your tools?


8-) 8-)


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.