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- From: BUROGE@rulmvs.leidenuniv.nl (Gert Eldering)
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- Subject: (Copy) Prime Time Freeware UNIX Coll. (Reviewed by Tony
- Thomas
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- This message might be of interest for Coherent users who posess a
- CD-ROM drive.
- Maybe it is also a trigger for someone to write a CD-ROM device driver
- in Coherent (Or would that be drive specific?).
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- Gert Eldering, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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- From: Tony Thomas <aa699@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
- Subject: Prime Time Freeware UNIX Coll. (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
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-
- Prime Time Freeware
- UNIX(tm) Freeware Collection
- Volume 1 - Number 2 July 1992
-
- Reviewed by Tony Thomas
-
-
- Users of other operating systems are probably a bit frustrated by the
- number of shareware/freeware discs for DOS, Windows and the Macintosh
- and the comparative scarcity of CD-ROMs for their platform. Slowly, but
- surely such discs are trickling out, and UNIX(tm) and **IX users will be
- glad to hear such a collection exists for their operating system(s).
- Prime Time Freeware has released two discs containing about 3 gigabytes
- of useful freeware(!) applications complete with source code.
-
- Most of this code comes from the Free Software Foundation, UUNET, Cygnus
- support and major universities. Shell scripts are included to support
- various interpretations of the ISO-9660 file conventions plus indexes to
- allow you to navigate the contents of each disc. The directories
- include ai, database, datacomm, desktop, game, language, math, music,
- os, gnu, usenet and window. There are all kinds of applications on
- these discs including CAD packages, mail handing systems, spreadsheets,
- emacs editors and tools, LaTex, Tex, chess, programming languages,
- graphics tools, X-Windows, Ghostscript and more. DOS users will
- probably recognize some of this stuff due to their gnuish DOS ports.
-
- This release comes with a comb-bound book and the discs are in plastic
- sleeves bound in the book. While not as elegant as the jewel box, this
- keeps the book and the discs together and simplifies retail distribution
- of the package. The book is very helpful and includes installation
- instructions for many systems, plus workarounds for difficult problems,
- like getting it to work with A/UX 3.0 (Apple UNIX). Hierarchical and
- permuted program lists are also included in the book.
-
- At $60 list (quantity discounts available), this is an excellent value
- for UNIX users. There is enough stuff on these discs to keep your Sun
- (or other **IX machine) humming for quite a while. A regular
- subscription service for this bi-annual release is also available. Even
- though all of its contents are Freeware, Prime Time Freeware encourages
- you to make donations to the Free Software Foundation and PTF Software
- Slush fund to help pay for the cost of creating it. (FSF donations are
- tax deductible, PTF donations are not.) Five Stars *****
-
- Contact: Prime Time Freeware - 415-112 N. Mary Avenue, Suite 50
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- Phone: 1-408-738-4832
- FAX: 1-408-738-2050
-
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- aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
- TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
- "True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"
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