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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Heads up!  FreeBSD 2.2.5 freeze is just 30 days away.
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Since people received so little warning with 2.2.2, "the stealth
> > release", I'm now erring a bit more on the other side of caution and
> > giving people plenty of advance warning of my intention to release
> > FreeBSD 2.2.5 at the end of September, ...
> 
> Thanks for the warning.  I'll walk down the collected list of
> ``consider for 2.2'' things.

  Long usernames?  This change is very simple.   Myself and others have
been patching local copies of 2.2-stable to get this functionality for a
long time.

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 

Tom