4.2BSD and 4.3BSD

Dear PUPS/TUHS members, I have just uploaded the images from the 4.3BSD tapes I had read on CWRU's MVS mainframe back in June. They are perfect (the 1600 BPI tapes were read without any errors and the format is absolutely correct). Note, though, that this is the June 1986 4.3BSD release, and I remember Kirk saying that among the tapes Rick is reading there is one with 4.3BSD revision 2, which is presumably 4.3BSD with some bugs fixed. I have also put an honest effort into reconstructing the 4.2BSD tape images from the files in Distributions/4bsd/Per_Andersson_4.2. The latter have the boot/standalone system file (1st on the tape) broken, the tarball with /usr/src also broken, and the tarball with /usr/lib/vfont simply missing. I have manually repaired the boot/standalone system file (using my brain and a hex editor), but unfortunately /usr/src is broken beyond repair (so I didn't include it in my repackaging). I see no reason for the Varian/Versatec fonts to change between BSD releases, so /usr/lib/vfont from 4.3BSD will probably do fine. It would still be nice if Rick could read Kirk's 4.2BSD tapes, though. For practical use 4.3BSD completely supersedes it, but for historical purposes we should preserve 4.2BSD as well. This stuff is in: /usr/home/msokolov/42.vax (4.2BSD) /usr/home/msokolov/43.vax (4.3BSD) on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au. (Warren, if you want to put this in the main PUPS archive, go ahead and do it for 43.vax, as it should be ready to be frozen, but I would hold on with 42.vax. Hopefully Rick will have some luck reading Kirk's tapes, and then I'll update the 42.vax directory by filling the missing pieces.) Sincerely, Michael Sokolov Phone: 440-449-0299 (Home) 216-217-2579 (Cellular) ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA15543 for pups-liszt; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 06:04:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.12]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA15538 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 06:04:19 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rickgc(a)calweb.com) Received: by mail.calweb.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA06615; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:04:05 -0800 (PST) X-SMTP: helo rgc from rickgc(a)calweb.com server @12.22.0.83 ip 12.22.0.83 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981116111440.00922460(a)pop.calweb.com> X-Sender: rickgc(a)pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:14:44 -0800 To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au From: Rick Copeland <rickgc(a)calweb.com> Subject: Re: 4.3BSD-Tahoe and 4.3BSD-Reno Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Warren, I am unable to login to minnie, I keep getting back "user rickgc access denied!". Why? Thanks, Rick Copeland Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA05416 for pups-liszt; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:57:22 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f