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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.boxhill.com!shamash From: shamash@boxhill.com (Ari Shamash) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 21 Jun 1994 15:03:01 GMT Organization: Columbia University Computer Science Dept Lines: 57 Message-ID: <SHAMASH.94Jun21110301@blues.boxhill.com> References: <Cr6oC5.B7D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <2tpn5t$ai0@scus1.ctstateu.edu> <2tqc0b$40r@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> <CrK65I.2LB@luva.stgt.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blues.boxhill.com In-reply-to: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org's message of Fri, 17 Jun 1994 20:27:03 GMT >>>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 1994 20:27:03 GMT, migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) said: Michael> This was posted some time ago: Michael> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael> ;login: Michael> 4.4 BSD Manuals - Hot off the Press! Michael> The USENIX Association and O'Reilly & Associates are Michael> publishing the final, definitive release of the Michael> Berkeley version of UNIX, which has been the basis Michael> for many commercial UNIX variants. Written by the Michael> Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Michael> California, Berkeley, the complete five volume set Michael> includes a CD-ROM and will be available in early Michael> July. As this newsletter goes to press, we hope that Michael> two volumes (*) will be available at the USENIX Michael> Summer Conference in Boston. (rest of article deleted). Unfortunately, the CDROM that O'Reilly is distributing is a subset of the code released from Berkeley as 'BSD 4.4-Lite'. I got this email from O'Reilly yesterday. I have asked them for a list of differences, but I still haven't heard from them. Ari --------------------------------------------- From: nuts@ora.com Sender: arsenio@ora.com To: Ari Shamash <shamash@boxhill.com> Subject: Re: question about 4.4 BSD Lite CDROM... Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 11:06:05 -0700 > Who removed these source files, O'Reilly in their CD release, or > Berkeley, in transitioning from 4.4 BSD to 4.4 BSD Lite? In other > words, if I were to order the 4.4 BSD Lite tape from Berkeley, would > I get more source code than if I were to order the CDROM from > O'Reilly, or would I get the same thing? We removed some source files from Berkeley's offering so that we could distribute the CD freely. You will be able to get a few more sources from Berkeley's Lite package than ours. Arsenio Santos O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Technical Support 103A Morris St, Sebastopol, CA 95472 arsenio@rock.west.ora.com (800) 998-9938 -- fax (707) 823-1390 Send all technical questions to: nuts@ora.com or bookquestions@ora.com -- shamash@boxhill.com ...!uunet!boxhill.com!shamash Box Hill Systems 161 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 212-989-4455