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To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
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Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 11:50:55 -0700
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:56:48 -0700 (PDT) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:

 > If it's of any interest, NetBSD did add an `include' facility to
 > config. sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC, for example, has
 > 
 >     include "arch/i386/conf/std.i386"

...hmm, actually, this was present in Torek's original 4.4BSD config.new,
as well, but we (NetBSD) do make heavy use of it.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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