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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>> The Makefile in the current source tree says
>
>.. that this question did belong in -current.

:) I am a -current newbie. You guys seem pretty serious about S/N ratio in
there, so I played it safe.

>Try upgrading to a closer -STABLE, then run the upgrade.

That may have been a good idea. 

Eventually, I just made a new boot floppy and then did a minimal upgrade
to 3.0 beta. I figured this would be the easy way to get an elf based
system. My system seems to work fine.

"make world" died on me with a different error. I have yet to take a
closer look at it.

Thanks for your help.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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