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Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? 
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:09:15 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I strongly disagree.  The fixit floppy needs to be completely redone. I
> wasn't aware that there was a single gzipped binary on it (has this
> changed recently?) but that's frankly ridiculous. The fixit floppy
> should work on any system as a last resort tool to recover from a fatal
> error. Support for gzipped binaries isn't even present in a lot of kernels!

I agree.  Do I hear you volunteering for this?  :-)

						jordan