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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU!mckusick From: mckusick@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Kirk McKusick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: prepayment for BSD 4.4-encumbered? Date: 11 Aug 1993 00:34:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <249eqd$7rg@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu Cc: The distribution folks at the CSRG sent out a mailing to the person listed as the administrative contact for every site that had paid the $400 upgrade fee in mid June. The letter asked the site to select the binary architecture that they wanted to receive and the media on which they wished to receive their release. It also included the usual site info form. To date, only half of the sites have responded. A second mailing will be made in about a month to the technical contact with the same request. Although no additional fee needs to be paid, you must respond to get your final distribution. Thus, if you have not responded, you should do so. If you have not received your letter, and believe you should have gotten one, please send mail to the CSRG distribution office at bsd-dist@CS.Berkeley.EDU. A small set of sites were selected to get the first tapes (one per supported architecture) so that we could test the installation procedure by non-experts. Several problems were discovered that are currently being corrected. The distribution office expects to be ready to start shipping the rest of the pre-paid domestic releases by the end of August. International tapes are still in the process of being made, and will hopefully ship shortly after the domestic ones. Summary: if you are a pre-paid upgrade site and you have sent in the architecture and media type paperwork sent to you in June, you need take no further action. If you are a pre-paid upgrade site and you have not sent in the architecture and media type paperwork sent to you in June, you must track down your administrative contact and get them to do so ASAP. Kirk McKusick