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From: rich@grayhawk.rent.com (Richard Harms)
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM
Message-ID: <1992Jul11.083242.16905@grayhawk.rent.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 08:32:42 GMT
References: <2278@nic.cerf.net> <1992Jul9.140537.2208@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Des Moines, Iowa, Public Access Unix; 515/277-6753
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In article <1992Jul9.140537.2208@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>In article <2278@nic.cerf.net> richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter) writes:
>
>: sell a 4.4-alpha CDROM and give CSRG 60% of the sales revenue from
>: this CDROM until November 1st. At $100 each, this CDROM will allow
>Excellent idea.
Ditto... I'd buy it immediately.
>: At the moment, I plan to make the CDROM simply contain
>: the compressed tar file of the distribution and a README file.
>Why compressed? Isn't 500Mbyte large enough?
>: If there is enough interest I could make an unpacked directory
>: tree that was compliant with ISO9660 level 2 for non-DOS
>: machines, but I'd still have to change some of the file names to
>: make them legal for ISO9660.
>Isn't it easier to just use BSD fs? ISO9960 is not widely available yet,
>is it?
ARGH!!!! Please don't use the BSD file system, not everyone interested in
obtaining the source has access to a pure-BSD system. I have mostly Macintosh
with one A/UX machine, it'd be utterly useless in anything other than ISO 9660.
And I would think that my situation is hardly unique (not having a real
BSD machine to read the CD ROM on).
-rh
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