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Re: groff 1.02 available for anon uucp

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From: Vidiot
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 00:43
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In article <1882@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<In article <JJC.91Jun5115327@jclark.UUCP> jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
<<If you have a TrailBlazer, you can get groff version 1.02 by anonymous
<<uucp from my machine, jclark.  The phone number is +44 71 792 9535
<<(that's in London, England); login as Uanon, no password.  It's split
<<into 11 parts named groff-1.02.tar.Z-part-a[a-k].  The last part is
<<87,901 bytes long, the others are each 100,000 bytes.  These parts
<<need to be cat'ed together to create groff-1.02.tar.Z.  Note that you
<<must issue one uucp command for each part; requesting
<<groff-1.02.tar.Z-part-a* won't work.
<
<Bad news, after spending an hour downloading the files and many $$$$, it all
<failed.  The file lengths were as indicated above, with the uncompressed
<file being 2918398 bytes long.  Doing a tar tvf gets:

Problem has been fixed.  Part h was corrupted.  I have placed all 11 parts
of the file on my system so that you can fetch them via anonuucp.

Here are the details:

	Phone:		608-274-9275
	Baud:		19200/2400/1200
	Login:		anonuucp
	Password:	none (it will not be asked)

The files are ~/groff.tar.Z.[ak]

Fetch each one of the 11 individually.  Cat all 11 together into a single
groff.tar.Z file.  Uncompress it and then untar that.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: groff 1.02 available for anon uucp
Message-ID: <1884@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 91 00:43:36 GMT
References: <JJC.91Jun5115327@jclark.UUCP> <1882@vidiot.UUCP>
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