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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news7.crl.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:09:57 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3349A8F5.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <5hn1o1$b4b@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br> <5horcu$e40@chronicle.concentric.net> <5hpn8r$6ip@idiom.com> <5hs9em$kja@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5i5pec$2dm@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Michael Craft <jsi@idiom.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38705 Michael Craft wrote: > > > > It still seems odd that FreeBSD comes with minicom but without the > > > Zmodem package, or any other package to download with. > > > > The original Unix Zmodem package is proprietary software, that cannot > > be legally distributed on a CD-ROM. > > Linux has it. Then they're breaking the law and inviting the wrath of the author down on them. We know, we heard from him back when *we* were distributing rzsz in the ports collection. :) But as someone else has already pointed out, lszrz is already available and being distributed now. I just get annoyed when I read all these mails saying "Hey, my Linux CD has a copy of kermit and rzsz and Netscape and Mosaic and everything on it - what's wrong with you guys??" (the answer to that question being "we're too legal, sorry."). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.