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Re:In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released by progman32 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:42PM (#23840287)
Ah. I understand the difficulty now, thanks. Some patches might not even apply in reverse!
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Re:In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released by bsdimp on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:08PM (#23840427)
It's hard to reverse apply 'rm /usr/src/bin/ld.c' in the instructions to patch 160, for example. You have to reconstruct ld.c from 2.10.1BSD, and then add missing changes to get it to work...
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Re:In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released by qubex on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:36AM (#23841720)
Exactly: deletions is what came to my mind instantly and if you hadn’t raised the issue then I would have.
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