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To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Subject: Re: misc/2177: sysinstall via ppp fails 
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Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:50:28 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I did some more debugging on this problem.
> 
> It appears to occur when you're using a user-supplied URL and running
> with ppp.

I've been looking more into this, and discovered at least one big
bogon with malloc()'d memory which I've just fixed.  Grab the latest
2.2 or -current bits and build another boot.flp (I'm doing the same).
I'm not sure if I fixed *the* bug (and an examination of all the other
places where I'm squirreling away data doesn't point up anything
further to be obviously suspicious about.

I believe this should also fix Frank Durda's ftp-non-retry bug, though
that will have to be confirmed pending the availability of an updated
boot floppy.

FWIW, I also would be happy to see 1.2MB floppies go as of 2.2-RELEASE.

						Jordan