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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcrware!grayhawk!rich From: rich@grayhawk.rent.com (Richard Harms) Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM Message-ID: <1992Jul11.083242.16905@grayhawk.rent.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 08:32:42 GMT References: <2278@nic.cerf.net> <1992Jul9.140537.2208@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Des Moines, Iowa, Public Access Unix; 515/277-6753 Lines: 32 In article <1992Jul9.140537.2208@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >In article <2278@nic.cerf.net> richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter) writes: > >: sell a 4.4-alpha CDROM and give CSRG 60% of the sales revenue from >: this CDROM until November 1st. At $100 each, this CDROM will allow >Excellent idea. Ditto... I'd buy it immediately. >: At the moment, I plan to make the CDROM simply contain >: the compressed tar file of the distribution and a README file. >Why compressed? Isn't 500Mbyte large enough? >: If there is enough interest I could make an unpacked directory >: tree that was compliant with ISO9660 level 2 for non-DOS >: machines, but I'd still have to change some of the file names to >: make them legal for ISO9660. >Isn't it easier to just use BSD fs? ISO9960 is not widely available yet, >is it? ARGH!!!! Please don't use the BSD file system, not everyone interested in obtaining the source has access to a pure-BSD system. I have mostly Macintosh with one A/UX machine, it'd be utterly useless in anything other than ISO 9660. And I would think that my situation is hardly unique (not having a real BSD machine to read the CD ROM on). -rh -- Richard R. Harms Internet: r-harms@grayhawk.rent.com 1217 24th, Suite 49 UUCP: {...}!{rutgers!bobsbox}!grayhawk!rich Des Moines, Iowa 50311 AOnline: Grayhawk AppleLink: D2656 Fax: 515/884-2736 Unix: 515/277-6753