Subject: Re: Backup scheme
To: Hans-Christian Becker <hcb@phc.chalmers.se>
From: Matthew Navarre <mnavarre@home.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/17/1999 20:21:23 
>Adrian Sun's netatalk version seems to be broken on NetBSD-1.4, though,
>so beware. I could comment slightly more on that if anyone is
>interested...

Please do. the asun version[1] I've got running under 1.4 works fine[2].
How is yours broken?

[1]1.4b2+asun2.1.1
[2]granted, it's not exactly heavily used

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