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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>, david@sparks.net, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject:   Re: Checking the integrity of system files
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970825232450.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <342.872566755@time.cdrom.com>

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Hi "Jordan K. Hubbard";  On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: 
> > It uses the 'gdbm' library, which is GPL'd (note _NOT_ LGPL), and it 
> > still doesn't provide the level of smart integration we want/need.
>  
>  And it uses a non-standard archive format, something which many people
>  praise the current installation tools for not doing.  It can come in
>  handy to be able to disassemble a package file on some other system
>  and inspect it easily.

Not when your goal is to SELL NT with a shell and /etc/rc.  Sorry, there is
no /etc/rc there, rather /etc/rc*.d.  Depository, in NT?

Simon




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