Undocumented "features and bug fixes" found in FIXDISK2.0 (3.51m)

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <364 at heurikon.UUCP> dklann at heurikon.com (David Klann) writes:
|>In article <1072 at icus.islp.ny.us> I write:
|>>Yes, the AT&T folks that put together the FIXDISK 2.0 (now released) and the
|>>Readme.Fix file found therein, did leave out a lot of detail about what
|>>_exactly_ was fixed.  Some people are probably saying, "Why have we waited...
|>
|>	[ Description of other fixes and features deleted ... ]
|>
|>Thanks for all the effort you've put into being "our interface" to AT&T!
|>I have a hypothetical question for you.  Now that the Fixdisk is available
|>for anonymous UUCP downloading, nearly anyone can get it.  What are the
|>consequences of loading this kernel on a system running version 3.5?
|>I guess I could try it, but I thought I'd ask the question before
|>shooting myself in the foot. ;-)
|>

Don't!  Does that sum it up? :-)   It would surely break things ... and if
it just doesn't die after booting, it would make things sputter along and give
weird results.  I don't know the consequences, but it surely wouldn't be
worth the headaches of restoring your 3B1 again.   Mixing and matching
3.51 OS/utility components with 3.5 is definately not recommended under
any circumstances!

One other thing I'd like to clear up ...  Thanks for the good words on
my efforts with AT&T, but there certainly was more than just me.  I'd
like to thank some of the others...

	Robert Granvin    (sialis!rjg)
	Karl Swartz       (ditka!kls)
	Peter Fales       (ihlpb.att.com!psfales)
	Gil Kloepfer, Jr. (limbic!gil)

Apologies go out to those I may have left out ... 

-Lenny
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