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- The Unix Archive -- Snapshot January 2002
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- Welcome to the Unix Archive, run by the Unix Heritage Society. Here you
- will find a large collection of Unix releases, applications, documentation,
- bug fixes, bootable disk images, and tools to deal with all these things.
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- Most of the material in the Archive is tainted with source code that was
- originally owned by AT&T, Novell, SCO and is now owned by Caldera. Please
- read the Caldera-license.pdf, and also the individual copyright notices
- for each piece of software in this archive.
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- If you are reading this file from CD-ROM or other media, then you have a
- snapshot of the on-line archive. We have had to split the archive over 2 CDs,
- and you will find the top-level stuff duplicated on each CD.
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- The Unix Heritage Society web pages are at http://www.tuhs.org/.
- A mirror of these pages is in Documentation/TUHS_Html.
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- Archive Layout
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- The archive is broken into a number of main categories. At present, we
- have subdirectories for PDP-11 Unixes, VAX Unixes, the 4BSD collection, and
- Other systems. Each category is maintained by a separate interest group. In
- general, each category will have the following sub-areas:
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- Boot_Images - Bootable disk images. Some of these may be links
- to files in the Distributions tree
- Bug_Fixes - Bugs and bug fixes from various sources
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- Distributions - Full or partial distributions of Unix
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- Documentation - Useful manuals and setup instructions, in several
- formats (nroff, ASCII, PostScript, HTML)
- Emulators - Various hardware emulators
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- Misc - Anything which doesn't fit in the other directories
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- Tools - Useful tools to work with the old distributions
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- Trees - Exploded trees for particular distributions
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- At the top-level of the Archive, you will find these extra things:
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- Applications - Applications written for Unix but not part of
- original distributions, e.g Usenix s/ware tapes
- Documentation - Documentation relevant to the whole archive
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- checksums - MD5 checksums over all files in the archive
- RFC 1321 describes the MD5 algorithm
- lists - ASCII files giving filenames, sizes & checskums of
- all files within tarballs in the archive
- tools - Useful tools that are not specific to one category
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- updates - List of major updates to the Unix Archive
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