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Just a note, on the expectation that people will ask after the status of my
span/split patch.  The most recent release is a patch against 2.4.5, and works
pretty well for me.  I've had one report of amrecover troubles with it, but
I've been unable to reproduce that so far (I use the amfetchdump util that
comes with the patch, myself).  So, it's not abandoned or anything, just idling
for feedback.

I haven't made any efforts to port it to the 2.5.0 tree, because in the grand
scheme of things I don't really know what's up with 2.5.0, or for that matter
whether the core team thinks my code is the work of a jabbering fool (and, ok,
it is, but that may be immaterial to its utility :).

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John Stange, Systems Administrator
National Academies Press
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