4.2 BUGLIST FROM MT XINU

[Vance Vaughan]

              GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE 4.2 BUGLIST FROM MT XINU

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          Legal  difficulties  which  have delayed the distribution of
          4.2bsd buglist summaries by MT XINU have been  resolved  and
          three versions of the buglist are now available.

          The current buglist has been derived from reports  submitted
          to  4bsd-bugs at BERKELEY  (not  from reports submitted only to
          net.bugs.4bsd, for example).  Reports  are  integrated  into
          the  buglist as they are received, so that any distributions
          are current to within a week or so.

          Buglists now being distributed are  essentially  "raw".   No
          judgment  has been passed as to whether the submitted bug is
          real or not or whether it has been fixed. Only minimal edit-
          ing  has  been  done  to produce a manageable list.  Reports
          which are complaints (rather than  bug  reports)  have  been
          eliminated;  obscenities  and  content-free flames have been
          eliminated; and duplicates have been combined.  The  result-
          ing collection contains over 500 bugs.


          Three versions of the buglist are now  ready  for  distribu-
          tion:

          2-Liners:
               Two lines per bug, including a concise description, the
               affected   module,  the  submittor.  Approximately  55K
               bytes, it is  being  distributed  to  net.sources  con-
               currently with this announcement.

          All-but-Source:
               All material, except that all but the most inocuous  of
               source  material  has been removed to meet AT&T license
               restrictions.   Nearly  a  mega-byte,  this   will   be
               distributed  to  net.sources in several 50K byte pieces
               later this week.

               A paper listing or mag  tape  is  also  available,  see
               below.

               Please note that local  usenet  size  restrictions  may
               prevent   large   files   from  being  received  and/or
               retransmitted.  MT XINU will not dump this material  on
               the  net  a  second time; if your site has not received
               material of interest to you within a  reasonable  time,
               please send for a paper or tape copy.

          All-with-Source (FOR SOURCE LICENSEES ONLY):

               4.2 licensees who also  have  a  suitable  AT&T  source
               license  can obtain a tape containing all the material,
               including proposed source fixes where such were submit-
               ted.

               Once again, MT XINU has not evaluated, tested or passed
               judgment  on proposed fixes; all we have done is organ-
               ize the collection and eliminate obvious  irrelevancies
               and duplications.


          A free paper copy of the All-but-Source list can be obtained
          by sending mail to:
                  MT XINU
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                  attn: buglist

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                  ucbvax!mtxinu!buglist

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          $150  to  cover  MT  XINU's costs to the address given above
          (California orders add sales tax).  For the  All-with-Source
          list, mail us a request for the details of license verifica-
          tion at either of the above addresses.