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From: bonomi@eecs.nwu.edu (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 06:20:33 GMT
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In article <2vg0mr$1q7@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>,
Chris Bitmead <chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> wrote:
>jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) writes:
>
>
>>jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi):
>>jhi>Is anyone going to prepare an international version of 4.4-lite?
>>jhi>The one with the naughty bits doing naughty encryption things cut off?
>

O'Reilly & Assoc -has- an 'internationalized' version for sale, on CD.
its available for $60, or so.  that takes care of -that- problem.
Far cheaper than downloading the -whole- mess from the net, anyway.	

>
>Surely the answer is to have the encryption stuff written outside the US
>and then combine them to form one US/international release?

 the stupid rules say that _even_if_it_was_written_outside_the_U.S._, once
 it comes in, it can't leave again.  In short, no US-based provider can
 do it.  Dumb!