To: wjb AT burl DOT att DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: diskette distribution 
Date: Fri, 14 May 93 10:06:13 PDT
From: Jonathan Ryshpan <jon%amito DOT halsp DOT hitachi DOT com AT hitachi DOT hitachi DOT com>

>Since omnigate ftp-by-mail doesn't work, and since some of us don't have
>direct ftp access, I wonder if anybody out there would be willing to
>package a complete (flex, bison, all source, etc.) distribution on 5.25
>inch 1MB floppies, at compensation for the postage, diskettes, and trouble
>(hopefully, not too much trouble :-).  I presume that would not violate
>anybody's license restrictions.

I think this is a *real* good idea -- and that someone has done it
already.  Try the Austin Code Works; you can find their ads in Dr. Dobbs,
etc.

Also, Uunet will ftp in anything you want and send it to you via uucp;
the only fees are the data transmission charges for sending it to you.

There have been servers that would fetch things via ftp and mail them to
you; but I don't know about any of them off hand.

Jonathan Ryshpan		<jon AT halsp DOT hitachi DOT com>

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