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From: mckusick@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Kirk McKusick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: prepayment for BSD 4.4-encumbered?
Date: 11 Aug 1993 00:34:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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The distribution folks at the CSRG sent out a mailing to the person
listed as the administrative contact for every site that had paid the
$400 upgrade fee in mid June. The letter asked the site to select the
binary architecture that they wanted to receive and the media on which
they wished to receive their release. It also included the usual site
info form. To date, only half of the sites have responded. A second 
mailing will be made in about a month to the technical contact with
the same request. Although no additional fee needs to be paid, you
must respond to get your final distribution. Thus, if you have not
responded, you should do so. If you have not received your letter,
and believe you should have gotten one, please send mail to the CSRG
distribution office at bsd-dist@CS.Berkeley.EDU.

A small set of sites were selected to get the first tapes (one per
supported architecture) so that we could test the installation procedure
by non-experts. Several problems were discovered that are currently
being corrected. The distribution office expects to be ready to start
shipping the rest of the pre-paid domestic releases by the end of August.
International tapes are still in the process of being made, and will 
hopefully ship shortly after the domestic ones. Summary: if you are a
pre-paid upgrade site and you have sent in the architecture and media
type paperwork sent to you in June, you need take no further action.
If you are a pre-paid upgrade site and you have not sent in the
architecture and media type paperwork sent to you in June, you must
track down your administrative contact and get them to do so ASAP.

	Kirk McKusick