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[99.139.148.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d11sm4449558oom.6.2020.07.20.09.45.44 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:45:44 -0700 (PDT) To: TUHS main list From: Will Senn Message-ID: <327c5b98-c48f-7855-0503-9c0f503af09c@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:45:44 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E1170938B24767E0E9407D87" Content-Language: en-US Subject: [TUHS] 211BSD Version in the Unix Archive X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E1170938B24767E0E9407D87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I'm currently doing some work with 211BSD and the best version that I've come across for my investigations is the one put together by Andre Luvisi, based on the distro in the Unix Archive at https://tuhs.v6shell.org/UnixArchiveMirror/Distributions/UCB/2.11BSD So far as I can figure out (and I'm a little bit fuzzy around the edges), this appears to be patch level 431, at least according to https://tuhs.v6shell.org/UnixArchiveMirror/Distributions/UCB/2.11BSD/VERSION. I have a number of questions that hopefully, someone can shed some light on: 1. Is it really pl 431? 2. How can I tell? 3. Is it the latest tape image available (I've seen plenty of disk images, but those are already installed)? 4. Is there a howto bring it up to the next patch level document lying around somewhere? I've seen Warner's work on going the other direction and that's fascinating in it's own right, but I'd like to see about patching up to latest. Thanks, Will -- GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF --------------E1170938B24767E0E9407D87 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All,

I'm currently doing some work with 211BSD and the best version that I've come across for my investigations is the one put together by Andre Luvisi, based on the distro in the Unix Archive at https://tuhs.v6shell.org/UnixArchiveMirror/Distributions/UCB/2.11BSD

So far as I can figure out (and I'm a little bit fuzzy around the edges), this appears to be patch level 431, at least according to https://tuhs.v6shell.org/UnixArchiveMirror/Distributions/UCB/2.11BSD/VERSION. I have a number of questions that hopefully, someone can shed some light on:

1. Is it really pl 431?
2. How can I tell?
3. Is it the latest tape image available (I've seen plenty of disk images, but those are already installed)?
4. Is there a howto bring it up to the next patch level document lying around somewhere?

I've seen Warner's work on going the other direction and that's fascinating in it's own right, but I'd like to see about patching up to latest.

Thanks,

Will
 

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