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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Z-MAIL 3.0 demo for *BSD ?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:31:16 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CLnn4C.17t@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs4.lat.oz.au> wrote:

>   I am subscriber of SysAdmin mag, and in the Jan/Feb issue this year,
> there was a Z-MAIL 3.0 demo (by Z-Code Softwares Corp.) available for
> ftp from : ftp.uu.net:/vendor/z-code/zmail/3.0. However, there is no
> port for any of the *BSD, I wonder will the *BSD team be influential
> enough to talk them into a port for *BSD ?

Doubtful for the free ports since *most* folks are running the free
version because it's cheap.  Those with $$ are running BSDI, so I could
see the Z-code folks doing a BSDI port but not a port to the *BSD's. 
There'd be little to no money in it.



Nate
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