According to mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
>
>There have been a *large* number of bugs fixed since August 1.  I would
>strongly suggest that you at least update your kernel.
>

Yep, I was afraid that would be the answer.  Ah well here goes days
of ftping :-(

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