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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Please Include UUCP in the Base Distribution
Date: 11 Apr 1994 05:03:22 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <1994Apr2.042318.5962@wubios.wustl.edu>,
David J Camp <david@wubios.wustl.edu> wrote:
>I would like to share FreeBSD with my friends, but many of them do not
>have access to the net.  It would be helpful if uucp were automatically
>installed with the floppy distribution, so that people can use anonymous
>uucp to access the net.

Unfortunately, floppies have a limited amount of space and I think
you would find it difficult to get a working uucp on a single floppy,
let alone the rest of the distrubution which is already crammed on the
floppy.



Nate

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