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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:13:30PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:48AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Saying you "need" the old versions of the installed tools to read the
> > on disk data is bogus, IMNSHO.  You could easily have a flag which says
> > "calculate the PE offsets using the old algorithm or the new algorithm".
> 
> Definitely. This is what I was asking for. That would be optimal.

I'm going to go through all the beta releases and confirm this, but as
I understand it there are not just two ways of calculating it.
Otherwise yes it would be easy.

- Joe