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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: The 4.4-lite mystery revealed... (was Re: 4.4-lite?) Date: 23 Jun 1994 08:15:16 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 23 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jun23091516@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2tpn5t$ai0@scus1.ctstateu.edu> <DSCHIEB.94Jun17114700@muse.cv.nrao.edu> <Jun17.205621.60191@acs.ucalgary.ca> <2u9j3f$2tf@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <Crt5GL.KC8@kithrup.com> <VIXIE.94Jun22174225@office.home.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: vixie@vix.com's message of 22 Jun 94 17:42:25 In article <VIXIE.94Jun22174225@office.home.vix.com> vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: I saw hundreds of 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM's at the ORA booth at the Boston Usenix. I paid for one along with a manual set (special show discount: $152 for all) and asked for it to be shipped to me. It hasn't arrived yet and I'm feeling a bit foolish for not taking the CDROM in person and having the _books_ shipped. Oh well. :-) I *did* take a CD home with me from the show and it's now in freefall.cdrom.com's drive, available to all who have accounts there. Rather restrictive, you say? Well, it turns out that if you want permission to *redistribute* the 4.4 Lite bits then you need to have a signed agreement with the UCB distribution office (Pauline somebodyorother handles it). It has been the delay in getting this stuff signed that's been responsible for Walnut Creek not making it available until now (we've had the bits for ages). I can say with some assurance that it HAS been signed and WC is now simply awaiting the return of the agreement before they open the floodgates on poor ftp.cdrom.com to the 4.4 Lite bits. I probably should have given my CD to Paul (it was sitting in a bag on his living room floor for 2 weeks :-) for gatekeeper, but neither of us apparently thought of it. Jordan