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From: ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick)
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Subject: Re: scsi cdrom/tape driver 386BSD??
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Date: 10 Jul 92 15:26:08 GMT
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A CD-ROM distribution of 386BSD...now _there's_ an idea!  I've been seriously
considering a CD-ROM drive, especially after I found out you can apparently
get copies of humongous source archives that way.  (If anybody knows about 
getting ftp.uu.net, or some subset thereof, I'd sure like to hear about it.
So far, email inquiries have not been successful...)

Seeing as how a source/binary distribution of 386BSD takes up about 20Mb, how
about using the other 580Mb or whatever for freely distributable sources, 
binaries, patches, man pages (?), etc.?

pat