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From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym...
Subject: [9fans] Welcome relief
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:27:38 -0000

I tried to put up the Unix bootp on FreeBSD 2.2.5, and found
that the unixsrc version didn't compile. Accordingly I copied the
changes into the FreeBSD version and it still didn't work. The
reason is that the parser sees

vm="textp9  blah blah"

as three tokens, 

vm
=
"textp9  blah blah"

It then tests for 'text' on the front of the third token, sees '"tes',
and fails to parse.

As far as I can see the unixsrc version has this problem as well.

Can anyone who uses this version point out my duff logic? I won't
insult the list by proposing a fix.