Re: Second FreeMWare release.

[Chris Emerson]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Kevin Lawton wrote:

> ftp://ftp.freemware.org/pub/freemware/fmw-19990817c.tar.gz

It compiles and runs ok on 2.0.36 under VMWare for NT:

$ ./user
calling ioctl(2)
freemware: ioctl(2) called, arg was 8
tearing down VM
$

At least I presume that's what's supposed to happen.  It didn't crash
it.

> Oh yeah, and in the spirit of Y2K madness, I changed the file naming
> convention to use 4 digits. :^)

Fair enough.

> BTW, do you folks like using dates or version numbers for releases?

I think that in this phase of actually getting something working at
all, it makes more sense to just use dates for the snapshots.  When
there's something to be released to non-developers, that's when we
want version numbers.

Chris
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