From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 18:20:19 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #57 Linux-Misc Digest #57, Volume #1 Thu, 26 Aug 93 18:20:19 EDT Contents: Re: WABI available on Linux or not (Rick Slater) Re: Does the Adaptec 1542C have problems? (Danny ter Haar) Re: Wordprocessor under X (Danny ter Haar) Re: Linux and Corporate America (Alan Cox) Re: The troubled "Backspace" key (Warner Losh) Re: NT versus Linux (Mark A. Davis) Re: WABI available on Linux or not (Jason Hitesman) Re: NT versus Linux (A Wizard of Earth C) Re: NT versus Linux (A Wizard of Earth C) Can I get color X with Compaq video? (Rick Miller) Re: Anyone got **UPS DEBUGGER** working for LINUX (Norbert Bladt) Re: Linux and Corporate America (Chris Waters) Re: High speed modems & Linux (A Wizard of Earth C) [Q] What architektures is linux being ported to? (Philippe Steindl) Re: Linux and Corporate America (Steve Gombosi) Re: Linux and Corporate America (Steve Gombosi) Re: Linux and Corporate America (Steve Gombosi) Re: DIP v3.2.2 problem (Carl Schott) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: slater@gandalf.nrlssc.navy.mil (Rick Slater) Subject: Re: WABI available on Linux or not Date: 26 Aug 1993 13:53:56 -0400 Reply-To: slater@gandalf.nrlssc.navy.mil (Rick Slater) sa> In article <25if7j$63m@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> you write: rs> It comes down to this: I have a magazine in front of me which claims WABI rs> stands for what we all thought it did. I only have statements (from folks rs> I don't know) that Sun says "it ain't so". I'll choose to continue to rs> believe SunWorld until one of you can document your assertions. -- Rick sa> SunWorld is not Sun Microsystems or any of its planets or moons. sa> It licences a trademark, has some Sun advisors, but obtains its own sa> copy. SunWorld is one hell of a lot more credible than posts to a news group by a person or persons essentially unknown to the reader. :) sa> Being circumspect about MicroSoft's claim to own the word "Windows", both sa> MIT's X Consortium and Sun avoid the use of that word in their official sa> publications. And I still don't see any documentation of those assertions. Therefore, I'll continue to doubt the veracity of such claims. -- Rick ------------------------------ From: danny@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Danny ter Haar) Subject: Re: Does the Adaptec 1542C have problems? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:33:54 In article <25b0fj$og@crchh327.bnr.ca> minyard@crchh7b9.rich.bnr.ca (Corey Minyard) writes: >I had heard about problems with the 1542C and was wondering if the >problems still exist or are fixed. Is anyone using the 1542C successfully? > Yes!, i bought as soon as it was out, had to wait a couple of weeks before they added _1_ line (or did they remove it ?). Has worked flwaless since with: 1 x Seagate hd 312 Mb 1 x IBM (huh?) hd 380 Mb 1 x archive viper 150 tape streamer 1 x toshiba CD-rom player >Thanks, >Corey >minyard@bnr.ca > > just for your info, Danny -- <=====================================================================> Danny ter Haar or Robins law #103: 'a couple of lightyears can't part good friends' ------------------------------ From: danny@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Danny ter Haar) Subject: Re: Wordprocessor under X Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 23:47:37 In article <110086@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes: >sdh@fishmonger.nouucp (Scott D. Heavner) writes: > >It's really annoying how Linux users have forgotten how to produce good >bug reports. THIS OS IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT! YOU ARE NOT USERS, YOU ARE >BETA TESTERS! We know :-) > Are you mounting a Linux partition via emufs? Are you >trying to write to that partition? Send me the whole of your config >file...unless you know dosemu inside and out, you can't possibly guess >what options are "important." > I can use it fine once installed. The automatic installation procedure of WP just hangs up on me, but that's because i'm a beta tester.. > _____ Danny -- <=====================================================================> Danny ter Haar or Robins law #103: 'a couple of lightyears can't part good friends' ------------------------------ From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Linux and Corporate America Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:58:31 GMT In article <25ich1INNk8i@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller - Practical Realist) writes: >No, the definition of a crime includes *punishment*. There is no punishment >for plagiarism. None. Copyright merely gives the one violated the right to >sue the violator for damages... but when you're giving your product away, >you're not even making any profit... so there can be no damages! Incorrect: Even lawyers understand other things - for example 1) Loss of status. Everyone buying it will believe you didn't write it, or are lying. Makes it harder to get a job 2) Harm caused by forcing you to rewrite code they failed to release 3) Damages due to everyone supporting Linux who will have suffered as a result (eg from 1 above) >Give me a break. I'll lay even odds that *MOST* Sun users have never even >*HEARD* of the GNU project!! Until recently suns software support people recommended gcc when you phoned up and said we need an ANSI C compiler. Now they say things like 'Officially we recommend Sun acc blah de blah, but GNU gcc is free and may suit you better' >Don't you get it? NO ONE HAS HEARD OF US!! WE ARE A *TINY* MINORITY. >...and more importantly, we have little if any control over cash flow. I disagree here. The people it matters to, and who you would sell Linux too have to a degree all heard about Linux. The man in the street hasn't I grant that freely. Alan ------------------------------ From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: The troubled "Backspace" key Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:27:44 GMT In article jcg@world.std.com (James A Robinson) writes: >imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: >>where xmodmap.tofu says: >>keycode 22 = Delete >>keycode 107 = BackSpace >xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete" & >in your .xinitrc file... Lets see, thats three ways of doing almost the same >thing now? I love UNIX. :-) The reason I went with the keycode approach was that I was also swapping around the Escape and `~ keys, the Control and Caps Locks keys. It was easier just to crank up xev and to find out the keycodes from that. It isn't portable, but it does the job. Your solution, at least, is portable to all X implementations that have both a BackSpace and a Delete key. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: NT versus Linux Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 17:12:57 GMT dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: >mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes: >> etc, etc... I think people are annoyed by Microsoft's somewhat unethical >> practicies (intentional or not), like having MS-"DOS" automagically included >> with almost every personal computer sold today (regardless of customer's >> wants for a different OS or unbundling). >Like it or not, DOS is what most people buy a computer for, so when >companies like Gateway, Zenith, Dell, etc. ship computers they do their >customers and extra "favor" by including DOS (and more often than not >Windows) with the computer, because they know that's what about %95 >percent of the people want. There is nothing unethical about that. >Microsoft has very little to do with it, outside of selling the rights >of DOS/Windows to companies so they can put their logos on the disks >and manuals. The definition of "ethical" varies from each person. >Call a company and ask if they could include SCO Unix instead of Dos/Windows >with the computer you want to order from them. Would make for a fun >experiment. People have done this before and were told it would cost them EXTRA because the company would have to spend time to UNLOAD it (several postings a few months ago). I think the overall situation in such cases does become unethical; or whatever other word which would be better used. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Sys.Administrator| Computer Services | mark@taylor.wyvern.com .uucp | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: ag173@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Hitesman) Subject: Re: WABI available on Linux or not Date: 26 Aug 1993 18:22:20 GMT Reply-To: ag173@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Hitesman) In a previous article, bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) says: >If you really insist on my digging up paperwork, it can be done --- next time >I get to the office; I'm working at a customer site and may not get in to the >office until next month sometime. But Sun has told us (I work for a Sun VAR) >that it's *not* an acronym. Moreover, none of the sales literature they've >sent us mentions the acronym --- it just talks about "Wabi". Well I don't have any paperwork to support it but I have talked Face to Face with a sun representitive who told me "Wabi does not stand for anything". He then went on to explain that they did want it to stand for Windows Application Binary Interface. but their lawyers told them they better not. P.S. this rep was giving a presentation for NASA at the time so I doubt that he just made it up.. P.P.S He went on to to add that there was a group inside of SUN who wanted to call the project Windows Application Binary Interface Technology. That way they could call it WABIT... So there you go, the word as I have it from SUN directly, you don't have to believe me but then again you don't have to believe that the earth is round if you don't want to.. -Jason Hitesman, ag173@cleveland.freenet.edu ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: NT versus Linux Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 17:54:47 GMT In article muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes: >>> On 24 Aug 1993 11:35:50 +0100, martin@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Martin >>> Spenceley) said: > > MS> I wish Linux every success. Maybe one day I'll port my OPEN LOOK > MS> applications to Linux. The only problem with that is I'd have to > MS> sacific my other bug-bear and buy a PC ;-) > >Port? The chance is very big there will be hardly any porting to do. >Most UNIX applications run out of the box. Porting isn't just compiling so it will run; it includes running a validation suite, and, in many cases, regression testing as well. Of course, if Linux passed SVID or some other validation suite itself so that software vendors could be guaranteed particular behaviours from interfaces, and if it were possible to write to just those interfaces to produce your applications, I suppose a port could be as simple as compilation -- then again, you'd have to trust the compiler not to put out code that did what you said and not what you meant (a great fault of modern optimization assumptions). In some industries, a port takes less than 2 weeks, and the testing can take several months to validate -- especially if the validation is of a source licensed product ported by the licensee but certified by the licensor. This is in line with ISO requirements for quality for products to be sold in Europe right now, and many other countries are in the process of adopting the same standards. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. ------------------------------ From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: NT versus Linux Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 17:44:30 GMT In article <746268510.AA04295@gccs.fido.imp> Enrico.Scotoni@p46.f520.n301.z2.fido.imp.com (Enrico Scotoni) writes: > > From: rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) > >>>>integrated GUI yes no (add-on) > > Why would anyone want an integrated GUI? Sometimes you would > > prefer > > the extra RAM! And what about the possibility of running > > different GUIs? >I completely agree: What the heck does the UI (graphical or not) have to >do with the OS. It really has to be the choice of the user WHICH UI he >wants to use (writing his own UI included). So, having an integrated GUI >(generally spoken: Having any UI integrated into the OS) is a bug and NOT >a feature. False. (1) Abstraction of interface from video hardware from applications means a good video driver in the kernel is a win. Knowledge of the video hardware can be shared between multiple applications (X, PostScript, MGR, DOSEM, etc.) rather than coded into each one. This saves reinventing the line draw each time. (2) Internationalization for Localization requires the ability to at *least* display alternate fonts (ISO8859-1 through ISO8859-9). This requires a more general interface. For full support of internationalization, support must be provided for Kanji, Katakana, Hirugana, etc. (large glyph set written languages -- the alphabets needed for the full written language don't fit in 8 bits) and Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil, Devengari, etc. (ligatured languages which, due to porr design of standards, can't be rendered from 8 bit fonts even if they are coerced into 8 bits). Font cell rendering is insufficient. (3) The inability to restore modes in a panic situation, since things like X servers and DOS emulators must be running to put the display back into a known state using the cooperative model requires state shadowing if the cooperation can't be had (for instance: running a kernel debugger). The cooperative model also fails in DOSEMU when it is (a) run under virtual consoles (because the DOSEM didn't set the video modes, the application did, the DOSEM can't save and restore them on the vast majority of hardware) and (b) run against a pseudo video memory store to dislay the DOS session in an X window. (4) An integrated GUI buys you a common "look-and-feel" across all your applications -- thus reducing training costs, since training in one application generalizes to others. (5) NT's GUI is not integrated, it is a configuration option that is only turned on by default, not required to be on for the system to operate. It's a false comparison in any case. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. ------------------------------ From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Can I get color X with Compaq video? Date: 26 Aug 1993 20:07:05 GMT I've got a compaq deskpro 386s/20 with 6MB of RAM and a 60MB hard-drive. Surprisingly, I've got no complaints... (I have a bigger box at home! :-) except for the video. I never could get Xfree86-1.2 to do the timing correctly. I have no idea what chipset the Compaq video uses... so I was stuck with Xmono in 640x480 VGA. Folks, I'm really hurting for some *COLOR*. The monitor's a regular old NEC MultiSync 3Ds. I'd love to run Xfree86-1.*3* as well, but I couldn't even get it's MONO server to sync right. Maybe the version 1.3 server can handle Compaq's chipset??? Could some kind soul help me out? RICK MILLER Voice: +1 414 221-3403 P.O. BOX 1759 FAX: +1 414 221-4744 MILWAUKEE, WI Send a postcard and I'll send one back. 53150-1759 USA Sendu bildkarton kaj mi retrosendos oni. ------------------------------ From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: Anyone got **UPS DEBUGGER** working for LINUX Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 10:02:37 GMT ben@cs.uwa.oz.au (Ben Robbins) writes: >Has anyone got the excellent UPS debugger working under Linux. >I know that it is working under 386BSD so surely it must be able to be >ported to Linux. I tried a few months ago but it was beyond me, I just >want to know if anyone has got it working before I have another look at >it. What do you make think that UPS is ported easily to Linux ? It uses a, let's say, system-call like interface to the OS which is, I am sure, completely different between both. >UPS surely has to be the best C debugger available for X windows, not >having it under Linux really detracts from all the great work that is >being done here, especially as (as I've already said) IT WORKS UNDER >386BSD. I agree it's the best C debugger I have seen, too. That's one of the reason why I am not sure whether I will want Linux or not. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt ------------------------------ From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) Subject: Re: Linux and Corporate America Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 20:13:26 GMT In <25iblrINNk21@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller - Realist) writes: >Ian... you've been brainwashed. When was the last time you've seen >*ANY* mention of the GNU project in *ANY* trade publication? Hmmm? Almost every month, month in and month out, why? Especially lately, with the recent announcement that Novell and Cygnus have inked a deal to start selling a bunch of GNU code (sold by Novell, support provided by Cygnus). -- Chris Waters | "By experimentation, I have found that if I stand still and xtifr@netcom.COM| spin a universe around me, I get dizzy." -- W. Allison ------------------------------ From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: High speed modems & Linux Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 20:37:17 GMT In article <1993Aug26.131225.1559@mksol.dseg.ti.com> bmyers@dseg.ti.com writes: [ ... Problems with sliding window protocols on serial ports ... ] > >I have a similar setup. However, I've been having problems with zmodem >transfers. Due to other discussions, I'm thinking that it might be due to >the way rz/sz software was compiled and/or changed as of late. I emailed the guy with the same problems with another sliding window protocol and a Sun machine -- here's the gist of it: 1) The input buffer is 128 bytes. 2) The amount of bytes in a "window" is larger than 128. 3) You get buffer overrun. 4) Flow control can't help unless your packet size is smaller than your buffer size *and* smaller than the difference between the high and low wather marks *and* smaller than the difference between the high watermark and the end of the buffer. 5) The exception to #4 is devices which behave in such a way as to suspend writes when flow-controlled. Very few modems and fewer PCs and UNIX boxes do this because it means you can't have an interrupt driven serial driver with "write buffer empty" interrupts to trigger the next transmit -- the way most PC comms likes to implement fast serial I/O. Zmodem (at least as Chuck Foresburg wrote it) is a sliding window protocol and so falls into this category. You can avoid *some* of these problems by: 1) Run the serial driver at a real high priority compared to other things. 2) Bump up the serial driver input queue so it's larger than the biggest window (SLIP and PPP generally do this). 3) Bump the low water mark (where flow control is deasserted) in the driver way down. 4) Write your program such that the reader is a seperate process and doesn't spend time doing anthing other than reads followed by an async IPC of the data to the processing part of the program. This will let you use the full window ACK as a flow control. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. ------------------------------ From: ilg@imp.ch (Philippe Steindl) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.develop Subject: [Q] What architektures is linux being ported to? Date: 26 Aug 1993 23:35:54 +0200 Hia ppl! I'm a rather happy linux user. I know that linux is rather fixed upon pc's (the kernel that is). Are there any efforts in porting it to other architectures besides m68k? I thought on that, cause there are new cool chips coming out or dropping dramatically in price: - the MIPS R3000 (there was a discussion somwhere in here, right? - the PowerPC chip 601 .. this one will cost around 250$, has only a tiny bit less SPECint's than the pentium and is 30-40% faster than the pentium in FPU speed. Well, first of all, there must be motherboards. Are there any? And if so: Is it possible to port linux to these processors? The price of this processors, esp the 601 added with the price of linux 8(0$) would form a phantastic duo: a very fast machine running a great un*x for less money than a 486/33 or even less! Let me hear your voice :) Philippe PS: gugus werner! :) ------------------------------ From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) Subject: Re: Linux and Corporate America Date: 26 Aug 93 20:16:06 GMT In article <25gdmjINN6v1@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes: >The GPL is beside the point. > >The sharp end of the stick is this: > > Linux is effectively defenseless against plagiarism. > >If someone re-named Linux and took all the credit for herself (don't want >to be sexist, y'know... ;-) I sincerely doubt that there would be *any* >legal retaliation. After all, Copyright simply gives you the right to >sue and an even chance of winning at it. It doesn't actually stop anyone. > >There are no "Copyright Police". Violation of Copyright is *not* a crime. This is not true. In the US, copyright infringement that is "willful" and done for commercial advantage or private gain *is* a federal offense (17 U.S.C. 506(a)). Depending on the number of illicit copies produced and their retail value, the offense may either be a felony or a misdemeanor. Under the Berne convention, I believe Linus had copyright protection from the moment the first version of Linux was put on disk ("tangible expression"). Neither registration nor placing the copyright notice on copies is required for protection anymore. Placing the notice prevents a violater from claiming that the violation was "innocent" or "unintentional". Registration (in the US) allows collection of "statutory" damages IN ADDITION TO "actual" damages. Registration costs $20. Because the US and Finland are signatories to the Berne convention, Linus has the same protection under US copyright law as if he were a resident of, and had developed Linux in, the United States. Check the Copyright FAQ in news.answers for more information. Steve ------------------------------ From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) Subject: Re: Linux and Corporate America Date: 26 Aug 93 20:20:21 GMT In article <25gos9$n7f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> tinsel@uiuc.edu writes: >rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes: > >> If someone re-named Linux and took all the credit for herself (don't want >> to be sexist, y'know... ;-) I sincerely doubt that there would be *any* >> legal retaliation. After all, Copyright simply gives you the right to >> sue and an even chance of winning at it. It doesn't actually stop anyone. > >> There are no "Copyright Police". Violation of Copyright is *not* a crime. >> So tell me... What's to stop them? Who will sue? > >At least in the US, copyright violation can be a crime. There are both >civil and criminal copyright laws. I believe, however, that you must >register a copyright with the Library of Congress in order to have criminal >protection. I don't think this is true. I think the only standard for criminal prosecution is whether or not the infringement was willful and done for gain. The only thing registration affects is the *amount* of damages that can be collected in a civil suit. I believe that requiring registration as a condition of criminal prosecution would be a violation of the Berne convention (to which the US is a signatory). Steve ------------------------------ From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) Subject: Re: Linux and Corporate America Date: 26 Aug 93 20:37:51 GMT In article imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: >In article <25gdmjINN6v1@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes: >>There are no "Copyright Police". Violation of Copyright is *not* a crime. > >Well, yes and no. Copyright violation does have specific penalties >associated with it. These penalties may be "civil" in nature, rather >than "criminal" in nature, but I seem to recall that the FBI can and >will get involved in cases of video tape "piracy." I fail to see how >that is different than software "piracy," but maybe there is specific >statutes in the USA that make this distinction. Nope. Copyright infringement that is willful and done for gain *is* a criminal offense under federal law. I believe the "Copyright Police" are known as the "FBI". They are reputed to be a rather humorless bunch. ;-) The holder of the copyright *also* has the right to sue for damages. Rick, who told you that copyright infringement wasn't a crime? >Linus Torvalds, or his agents, can always sue, or threaten to sue, >someone who is violating the terms and conditions of his software. It >would be relatively easy for him to produce a number of expert >witnesses that would testify that the code in question was written by >Linus, or at the very least collected by him. If the copies are sold or bartered, he can also get the Feds to throw the SOBs in jail. >>After all, Copyright simply gives you the right to >>sue and an even chance of winning at it. It doesn't actually stop anyone. > Putting people in prison tends to impede the rate at which they can generate illegal copies ;-) Steve ------------------------------ From: cgs103@news.cac.psu.edu (Carl Schott) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: DIP v3.2.2 problem Date: 26 Aug 1993 21:52:22 GMT In article <1993Aug26.122821.8751@news.dkrz.de>, u241026@niesel.dkrz.de (Andre Hufschmidt) writes: |> In article <24qqbb$r8e@news.ysu.edu>, |> Joshua P. Weage wrote: |> > |> >Someone posted earlier on getting an ST???? error & network |> >unreachable. Has anything been straightened out? As I get |> >the same error also. Is it a problem w/ v.3.2.2? |> > |> >Thanks, |> >Josh |> |> Try using the following after getting this error : |> |> route add |> route add gw |> |> I connect using a Terminal-Server who has a SLIP-Modeve works fine for me. |> |> BTW: dip will call route using route add gw |> This call produces the error-message. I'm not a network-wizard, perhaps |> others can explain why. |> |> andre |> DIP is supposed to issue these commands for you through "system()" calls, but the "route" commands that 3.2.2a issues in "attach.c" don't seem to be appropriate to the pl12 version of NET-2. I modified it slightly so that it now issues the following route commands after you give the "mode SLIP" command: route add $rmtip route add default gw $rmtip This eliminates the "Network unreachable" errors on my box. (SLS 1.03 99pl12 of 8/19/93 at tsx-11). ASCII and uuencoded patches follow. Note that these are applied against the source after application of the earlier patch which generates 3.2.2a from the "net-010" sources. 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