Seigo Tanimura
64fef830bd
Note the removal of the midi drivers.
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Pointed out by: scottl
Shame on: myself
2004-06-04 15:24:12 +00:00
Andre Oppermann
bb4f06e701
Recompile of ipfw(8) is required because of new ipfw option (versrcreach).
2004-04-23 14:33:30 +00:00
Colin Percival
05641e82d7
1. Remove callout_stop binary compatibility.
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2. Document that this means that kernel modules must be rebuilt.
3. While I'm here, fix my sorting error in callout.h
Requested by: many [1], scottl [2], bde [3]
2004-04-20 15:49:31 +00:00
Brooks Davis
76c3e0f765
I added preseedrandom yesterday, not last month.
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Reported by: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>
2004-04-16 18:36:52 +00:00
Brooks Davis
8633bbeaac
Document changes in /dev/random initalization. Suggest running
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/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom to seed the PRNG in the upgrade instructions.
2004-04-16 17:13:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
d0dc918334
Add notes about the pci stuff that's currently working its way through
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current.
2004-04-14 17:54:18 +00:00
Ken Smith
0fbd2da9c2
Fix kernel build instructions to be correct for 5.X.
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PR: docs/65397
Submitted by: Russell Francis <rf358197 (at) ohio.edu>
2004-04-11 03:30:09 +00:00
Robert Watson
d40d033ac0
Commit a message to UPDATING indicating that during network stack locking
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merges, debug.mpsafenet will no longer be safe to use, and that it should
be turned off (which is the default). I will commit a follow-up message
to UPDATING (and post to freebsd-current) when it's safe to turn it on,
with a description of under what circumstances it is safe to use.
2004-03-22 16:37:32 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
4c86458b9a
Mention the user account for 'pf' is "proxy".
2004-03-18 00:50:40 +00:00
Garance A Drosehn
ec9b318eaf
Change time_t from a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value, on FreeBSD/sparc64
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only. This is a MAJOR incompatible change for the sparc64 platform,
but will not effect FreeBSD on other architectures.
Reviewed by: imp for UPDATING, freebsd-sparc for the change itself.
2004-03-10 17:39:05 +00:00
Max Laier
fc28f1ff5f
Bump __FreeBSD_version for the pf install and write comments to UPDATING.
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Approved by: bms(mentor)
2004-03-08 22:26:46 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
3aff5d0603
Add a note explaining how to use libmap.conf to work around problems
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with the libc_r -> libpthread transition.
2004-03-03 09:17:06 +00:00
Brian Feldman
e07a40f32d
Mention getaddrinfo(3)/resolver(3) ABI change.
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Reminded by: bmah
2004-02-26 16:44:31 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
9d7f8c80e2
It's protocol version 1 I've disabled, not version 2.
2004-02-26 15:54:44 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fd63c5b3a2
Mention the recent sshd configuration changes.
2004-02-26 12:00:41 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
714ae42a86
Add a note about the routed update breaking compatibility (for MD5
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authentication only) with older versions of FreeBSD's routed.
2004-02-25 23:56:30 +00:00
Andre Oppermann
fbd2e692fa
Note change of sizeof(struct tcpcb) and libkvm recompile.
2004-02-24 16:12:09 +00:00
Warner Losh
158b90da67
Add a note about cdevsw changes.
2004-02-22 19:02:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
7411109704
Update instructions on /rescue vs -j to indicate a fixed date.
2004-02-20 22:38:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
ff46e0decf
Add a belated entry for the CPU_ENABLE_LONGRUN issue.
2004-02-20 15:25:55 +00:00
Mike Makonnen
b7b1e150b0
Add an entry about the removal of etc/rc.d/ttys.
2004-02-07 07:25:47 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
aca89ee602
Add a note about the libkse -> libpthread switch.
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Reviewed by: imp
2004-01-30 12:24:21 +00:00
Alex Dupre
68b7b3a961
Add a note to say that ULE is now the default scheduler in GENERIC.
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PR: docs/61870
Submitted by: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Approved by: imp
2004-01-26 09:57:04 +00:00
John Baldwin
c124fa0567
Add a note to say that the ACPI module has been turned back on now.
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Requested by: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@piquan.org>
2003-12-15 19:19:16 +00:00
Robert Watson
ce41f4bf59
Comment on initgroups.c:1.8: it can prevent users from logging in if
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a user has over 16 groups defined.
Reported by: "Klaus-J. Wolf" <yanestra@web.de>
2003-12-14 00:42:00 +00:00
John Baldwin
c53a5d8fb8
Add a note about MPTABLE_FORCE_HTT.
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Prompted by: John Stockdale <jstockdale@stanford.edu>
2003-12-10 15:59:20 +00:00
Robert Watson
97209ca3bf
Clarify UPDATING language: do buildworld before buildkernel, and
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do installkernel before installworld, rather than don't make world
before installkernel.
Pointed out by: gad
2003-11-17 23:25:16 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
3f631d528c
Add the most vital piece of information WRT upgrading past the
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statfs changes: you must have COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in your kernel
config file. Everything else is documented procedure and will
not save your ass if you don't have the option.
2003-11-14 22:11:44 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
cc512faeb8
Note to update cfsd (ports/security/cfs) after installing the
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statfs changes.
Submitted by: Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com>
2003-11-14 08:07:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
30093b05a0
Warn that you won't be able to build a kernel if you do an installworld
2003-11-13 00:10:43 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
64a18d6f20
Add an entry about the changes in the statfs structure that require
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kernel and user land applications doing statfs to be in sync.
Requested by: Johan Karlsson <johan@FreeBSD.org>
2003-11-12 19:13:02 +00:00
Hartmut Brandt
8ad1f5e470
Add an entry about the changes in netgraph that require kernel and
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user land netgraph stuff to be in sync.
Reviewed by: imp
2003-11-12 09:11:18 +00:00
Ceri Davies
2a2cfa95ff
Correct a typo; two permutations of ACPI are plenty already.
2003-11-04 19:42:55 +00:00
John Baldwin
8bf455a577
Add an entry dealing with the change from 'options APIC_IO' to
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'device acpi' as well as the temporary disablement of the ACPI kernel
module.
2003-11-03 23:02:17 +00:00
Brooks Davis
b5004ff560
Use tabs not spaces.
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Pointed out by: Xin LI <delphij at frontfree dot net>
2003-10-31 21:58:15 +00:00
Brooks Davis
9bf40ede4a
Replace the if_name and if_unit members of struct ifnet with new members
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if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
2003-10-31 18:32:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f59d5f7a9b
s/5.0-CURRENT/FreeBSD 5.x/
2003-10-19 10:24:59 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
282e0f015b
Fixed the "To build a kernel" section to mention -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE
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as the new sys/conf/kmod.mk depends on a make(1) bugfix now.
Reported by: current
2003-10-03 18:29:06 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
47a42c7aed
Note change to cdevsw open/close default change.
2003-09-28 16:25:35 +00:00
Max Khon
0710534208
Add a note about kiconv(3).
2003-09-27 14:12:39 +00:00
Sam Leffler
17dcd0265b
note PFIL_HOOKS must be explicitly configured when using IPFILTER
2003-09-25 16:12:12 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
fedf1d01a2
Fix a bug in arplookup(), whereby a hostile party on a locally
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attached network could exhaust kernel memory, and cause a system
panic, by sending a flood of spoofed ARP requests.
Approved by: jake (mentor)
Reported by: Apple Product Security <product-security@apple.com>
2003-09-23 16:39:31 +00:00
Jacques Vidrine
db38f9cb0e
Note the addition of `-C 60' to inetd_flags in etc/defaults/rc.conf.
2003-09-15 17:20:05 +00:00
Mike Makonnen
c09d2c2bc2
Remove deprecated files no longer neccesary as part of rc.d. Include
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a note in UPDATING about removing them from current installations.
2003-08-29 13:25:08 +00:00
Søren Schmidt
f240812bbd
Fix the former commit as cvs screwed it up somehow
2003-08-24 16:46:03 +00:00
Søren Schmidt
17c159dce6
Add comment about ATAng.
2003-08-24 16:14:52 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a19f8dda70
Fix accidental line deletion.
2003-08-20 15:42:05 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
c1f61aa934
Document the OFW_NEWPCI commit to sparc64 generic.
2003-08-20 01:52:30 +00:00
Nate Lawson
38c962e7c4
Note da(4) quirks being deprecated and the procedure for re-enabling them.
2003-07-29 04:40:33 +00:00
Warner Losh
178cf4e9e8
note rescue issues and fpu emulation removal
2003-07-22 11:08:41 +00:00
Ceri Davies
8b71efcac9
Correct a spelling error.
2003-07-12 01:16:54 +00:00
Warner Losh
05538fa918
Delete the panic part of 20030711, it has been fixed
2003-07-11 23:40:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
157c629a07
gcc3.3: add dire warnings.
2003-07-11 22:44:59 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
6cc6353f93
Add a retrospective entry about how having installed a broken sed(1)
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can cause build failures.
Triggered by: too many questions on the -current
2003-06-13 20:05:46 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
7ddc2528b7
Fix date, appearantly everybody else got done with May before I did.
2003-06-11 06:37:55 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
766c34e467
Add entry for removing deprecated locale names
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Approved by: imp
2003-06-10 08:26:38 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
df622d54f8
GEOMification of CCD.
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You need your kernel and ccdconfig(8) to be in sync, particularly if your
source tree is on a ccd device.
2003-06-09 19:25:07 +00:00
Mark Murray
52b4744563
Announce the Kerberos5 changes.
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Prodded by: imp
2003-05-05 20:05:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
a26df538d2
Document a workaround for getting past the groff infinite loop problem
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when your userland is older tahn your kernel and Makefile.inc1 therefore
thinks that you don't need to rebuild groff, when in fact you do. This
workaround is to set OSRELDATE to 500110 before building, but only if you
have a new enough Makefile.inc1.
I've confirmed this on my laptop, which was suffering from this problem.
Since it only hits power users, we'll naively assume that such users are
smart enough to read UPDATING.
2003-05-04 06:26:30 +00:00
Doug Barton
4b065e2ce1
Per previous announcement, remove the old version of the rc system.
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All functionality from the previous system has been preserved, and
users should still customize their system boot with the familiar
methods, rc.conf, rc.conf.local, rc.firewall, sysctl.conf, etc.
Users who have customized versions of scripts that have been removed
should take great care when upgrading, since the compatibility code
that used those old scripts has also been removed.
2003-05-02 05:27:35 +00:00
Doug Barton
33ce0cf913
Add a warning about the impending demise of rcOG.
2003-04-27 21:28:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
47a657d1b8
Alphas with libc.so between 2003/03/12 and 2003/03/29 cannot be
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upgraded cleanly. Document the reason and possible workarounds.
Requested by: gallatin
2003-04-25 20:11:17 +00:00
Warner Losh
81cda3d923
Add warning about a potential hang on boot at devd after 20030507 if
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you have an old kernel and a new userland. I've just committed a fix
for devd to work around the kernel bug, but that goes away on May 7th.
2003-04-25 02:10:17 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
89056245c0
Correct a doubled 'with'.
2003-04-23 14:28:13 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c57404fee3
Mention that 20021024 entry doesn't affect disks formatted in
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dangerously-dedicated mode.
2003-03-31 12:46:18 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
59df11730a
Acutally document how to make a LINT kernel config, besides telling all it
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is gone.
2003-02-13 17:55:12 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
ca22e6526a
Correct assorted typos and grammos. No content changes.
2003-02-09 13:02:57 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
5d2af00cc5
Notify IPv6 users of important change in sendmail 8.12.7
2003-02-08 20:36:35 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
f27b1fce70
Add a section describing installing -current onto a dedicated partition
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from a 4-stable build environment.
Reviewed by: imp
2003-02-07 08:26:23 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9db58771e0
20030128
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NODEVFS option has been removed and DEVFS thereby made standard.
This makes all references to MAKEDEV obsolete, and the should
be removed when convenient.
2003-01-29 07:14:16 +00:00
Max Khon
66ff0e67c4
hint.acpi.0.disable -> hint.acpi.0.disabled
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Submitted by: Vitaly Markitantov <vm@dics.com.ua>
2003-01-27 23:30:21 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
8d9b3f572c
Add a note about the ofwcons device name change.
2003-01-27 04:53:30 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
1c5efda5aa
- Add an entry about the new scheduler options.
2003-01-26 05:29:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
c9fdb80a1f
More wi info: adhoc means have reverted.
2003-01-17 07:54:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
9d1d64f5a6
wi now needs wlan.
2003-01-16 16:56:58 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9d5abbddbf
Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
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especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
84cc83ef95
Add a word, lost in previos commit.
2002-12-22 07:08:14 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
161dc364bd
Add note about GCC -fno-pcc-struct-return being default again. The
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breakage window was about 18 days long.
Submitted by: juli
Approved by: re (rwatson)
2002-12-22 07:00:45 +00:00
Martin Blapp
fb4c80619a
Change the name for the local unix-socket based protocol
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from "unix" back to "local". Add some compat stuff so both
ways work for some time.
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: imp (UPDATING)
Requested by: iedowse, lukem@netbsd.org
2002-12-16 22:24:26 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
17d47eb38a
Add an entry for sparc64 users to warn them about potential problems
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with kernels & modules that are not in sync, after the latest upgrade
of binutils.
Reviewed by: tmm
Approved by: re (rwatson)
2002-12-06 13:19:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
bd79cf400b
OK, you can use the 4.x boot loader and boot blocks to load kernels, but
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I'm nervous about recommending it, so note it as a footnote only for now.
2002-10-30 20:11:07 +00:00
Bill Fenner
a445929407
The value of IPPROTO_DIVERT has changed.
2002-10-29 16:46:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
21c075eaf5
Add note: cvs checkout -P needed for fresh tree.
2002-10-28 21:33:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
d21258022e
MACHINE_ARCH is wrong here. It should be MACHINE
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Submitted by: nyan@ (Yoshihiro-san)
2002-10-27 06:31:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
c74fe6af7f
Mention the need to have COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in the kernel you use for the
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upgrade.
2002-10-27 04:48:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
b705ae1084
Note the scary messages that you see when mounting / and other things
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are expected and normal when you've booted a 5.0 kernel with a 4.x
userland.
2002-10-27 01:35:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
f643de42bb
State the stupidly obvious:
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If /tmp is on /, then blowing away its contents, as appropriate,
may get you enough space to do the installworld.
2002-10-26 22:55:43 +00:00
Warner Losh
5c195f592b
Note: 5.0 requires more space. If you don't have 30MB free on /, then
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you are going to get hurt badly if you try to do an update from
sources. Make a note of this. While 'experts' could install it in
less space, I think 30MB is a good number.
2002-10-26 22:50:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
63cb445e51
A simple make world is too dangerous for most upgrades. Instead, copy
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the updating from stable section, and remove the kludge-o-rounds that
are in there.
Sometimes make world is safe, sometimes not. Let's document the safe
way to deal.
2002-10-26 06:25:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
fc8c157fad
Note GEOM removal of the compatibility slice, and what you, the
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upgrader needs to do about it.
Also, greatly expand the the upgrading from -stable part of this file.
It appears that you need new boot blocks to ensure that the right
kernel is booted single user.
2002-10-26 06:21:00 +00:00
Andrew Gallatin
fd9e8bdaef
Document the (alpha only) "out of memory" and "PT_LOAD: too few segments"
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problems with the new groff and mention possible workarounds for people
buildworlding to current.
Reviewed by: ru (a slighly older version)
2002-10-24 18:41:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8a4c9012c
gcc 3.2
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rm -rf /usr/include/g++ needed to upgrade from 4.6
2002-09-03 06:13:43 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
c2248fa21b
Mention new termcap and TERM=xterm-color -> xterm issue.
2002-08-28 19:34:49 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0d533e437d
Document the effect of contrib/gcc/c-lex.c,v 1.2 commit.
2002-08-15 08:51:24 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
33c1de7d1f
Ignore -C, -p, and -S options of install(1) when used with the -d
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option. Warn about COPY being phased out. Restore the old method
of always comparing before installing: INSTALL="install -C".
Requested by: bde
2002-07-29 08:51:04 +00:00
Julian Elischer
2b877fac01
Approved by: imp@freebsd.org
2002-07-03 04:23:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
06596d3769
Add a note to UPDATING saying that now is a bad time to update due
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to some KSE/libc_r interaction.
Submitted by: julian
2002-07-01 07:25:05 +00:00
Robert Watson
4b683fb224
Slightly modify the UPDATING text to indicate that -gstabs+ is a gcc
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flag to replace -g. This works around slight obtuseness in the developer.
(me :-).
2002-06-05 20:21:40 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
f50caf6ff4
Document -gstabs+
2002-06-04 18:10:54 +00:00
Robert Watson
6d362db996
Remove comment about NO_WERROR, since it no longer applies.
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Pointed out by: silby
2002-06-03 00:21:13 +00:00