From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:43:58 +0000
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: Keepers of the flame (was Re: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c)
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>>Is Lucent really keeper of the updates anyway? It seems to me that every
>>time a problem is mentioned someone (often forsyth) says "oh yeah, I
>>fixed that ages ago; I'll look out the patch". I don't think it's true
>>that when I finally get me, my CD and sufficient computers all together
>>and all in the same country, I'll be able to pop over to Lucent and ftp
>>all the patches I need.

if so, it's our (my) fault for not having fed changes back consistently.
most of the changes and extensions generally available thus far
really have come from people at Bell Labs, particularly jmk.
once the updates from plan9.bell-labs.com
have been applied, your system should be in reasonably good shape.