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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:21:24 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Do I need specialprogram to view/edit /etc/rc.conf
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On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 07:59:52PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:20:20 +1300 (NZDT), Jonathan Chen wrote:
>
>> This is due to a bug with 2.2.2's sysinstall program. You can manually
>> fix the file by vi'ing the file and deleting the 2nd set of comments.
>>
>> You will need to fix the file after a while 'cos if the per line
>> length get too big, bad things happen.
>
> Do you know if this was fixed for 2.2.5?

No.  I entered my bug report against 2.2.5.

Greg