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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: The 4.4-lite mystery revealed... (was Re: 4.4-lite?) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <Crt5GL.KC8@kithrup.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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 16:50:45 GMT Lines: 32 In article <2u9j3f$2tf@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, Jon Cargille <jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >I'm almost beginning to wonder whether there's a plot afoot. We've >seen Bostic provide detailed information about how to order from >O'Reilly, and Vixie gave a pointer to the info. Oh, please. We got our tape a few weeks ago. We don't have the bandwidth to put it up for anonymous ftp, nor the disk space (gzipped, it's about 41MBytes). I asked the folks at both dec and uunet if it could be put up on their systems; gatekeeper didn't have enough disk space (it would have eaten up almost all of the free disk space), and the uunet folks were unsure what to do about the encryption stuff. (Although I don't think it's a problem, myself, since they did the same thing with net/2. But it's not my site, and I'm not the one who would face the rather severe penalties...) Anyway, uunet folks have a copy of the source tree online, waiting to put it up. Hopefully soon. Walnut Creek CD-ROM also would have put it up (they're used to their t1 being completely saturated :)), but they didn't get their tape for the longest time (I don't know if they did get it, yet). We, having gotten ours first, have let them use that as a copy, so they can now release it; it may already be there for all I know. Now, as to ORA and their CD-ROM: I have assumed, but didn't know, that UseNIX got an early version of the tape so they could promote the whole thing. I think this is fine, myself. Remember that it's not just ORA that produced the CD-ROM, but the UseNIX Association as well. And it then debuted at a UseNIX conference. (Which would be why things were rushed for them, so they could get the CD-ROM out for the conference.)