Timothy Cullip: "Uncompress corrupting files" (Jan 16, 10:05):
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>  uncompress *

Ok, this has come up before. The bug is (I'm told) in the
estdio/compress pair: either compress does something it shouldn't really
do, or estdio has a subtle bug that shows up /only/ with compress, but
the fact is that [un]compress doesn't like several arguments. There
should be a fix for this (a patch to estdio), but I have never seen it.
Do the uncompresses one by one (or in a for-loop), and things are well.

Someone:
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> kermit on 0.12 doesn't work.

Yet another thing I forgot to say about the new release: the device
numbers for tty's have changed: tty0 is now a "general console" - it
always uses the current console to read/write things (current at the
time of the system call), tty1-63 are reserved for virtual consoles,
tty64-127 are reserved for serial io (possibly line printer: how about
making it a tty-device?) and tty128- are reserved for pty's.

The com1 is now called /dev/tty64, and com2 is called /dev/tty65. Users
of the alpha vc package for 0.11 will recognize this numbering. Hope
this was the only problem.

Yet someone else:
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> Cannot find mkswap & include.tar.Z

mkswap was intended to be on the root disk, but I forgot it: it can be
found at least on nic: /pub/OS/Linux/bin/mkswap. include.tar.Z is in the
kernel subdir. I think the other sites have them too - search for them
from the closest site first.

		Linus