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Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)

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From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:59
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>Would some kind soul please describe this disk's contents and availability ?
>I was unaware of it's existance, and cannot find any reference to it in the
>latest ultrix-faq.

	There is a freeware CD of compressed tar archives and some binaries
and a bunch of other good stuff, done by one of our engineers in Europe. A
hurculean effort that he accomplished almost single-handed (or maybe entirely
single-handed). You might be able to get a copy by asking your local sales
rep or sales office or ULTRIX tech support folks.

	There's another project in the works called "Good Stuff" (but the
name may change if we don't get the trademark) which will be a directly
mount-and-runnable binary/source hierarchy for ULTRIX and eventually
OSF1 for Alpha/MIPS. This is part of a grander scheme to provide, well,
the good stuff off the net ( X11R5 expect gnutar-1.10 kermit-4f-095 perl
rdist-6.0beta regexp tcsh-6.02 tex tk xv-2.21 gnudiff-1.15 kmem man mp
mtools-2.0 rcs-5.6 Xw admin agrep bison-1.14 calc contribtools elisp
emacs-18.58 gcc-2.2.2 gdb-4.6 ghostscript-2.4.1 ghostview-1.2 gnumake-3.62
gnuplot-3.1 groff-1.05 jove-4.14 libg++-2.0 libtiff m3-2.07 mawk
pbmplus sc-6.19 sps top-3.0 transfig-2.1 xdtm-2.4 xdump xfig-2.1.4
xspread) and more, in a format where you can slap it in and run it, or
NFS export it, or copy it piecemeal to a hard disk. We have secured
funding, and we have a ship schedule and resources and this will happen.
Eventually. We'll also make deltas to the kits available for FTP, or
complete kits, for that matter.

mjr.
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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
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Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
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Date: 26 Aug 92 17:59:04 GMT
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