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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.175904.18612@decuac.dec.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 17:59:04 GMT
- References: <robg.714632849@citr.uq.oz.au> <1992Aug25.230553.28036@vbohub.vbo.dec.com> <1992Aug26.141822.16179@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
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- >Would some kind soul please describe this disk's contents and availability ?
- >I was unaware of it's existance, and cannot find any reference to it in the
- >latest ultrix-faq.
-
- There is a freeware CD of compressed tar archives and some binaries
- and a bunch of other good stuff, done by one of our engineers in Europe. A
- hurculean effort that he accomplished almost single-handed (or maybe entirely
- single-handed). You might be able to get a copy by asking your local sales
- rep or sales office or ULTRIX tech support folks.
-
- There's another project in the works called "Good Stuff" (but the
- name may change if we don't get the trademark) which will be a directly
- mount-and-runnable binary/source hierarchy for ULTRIX and eventually
- OSF1 for Alpha/MIPS. This is part of a grander scheme to provide, well,
- the good stuff off the net ( X11R5 expect gnutar-1.10 kermit-4f-095 perl
- rdist-6.0beta regexp tcsh-6.02 tex tk xv-2.21 gnudiff-1.15 kmem man mp
- mtools-2.0 rcs-5.6 Xw admin agrep bison-1.14 calc contribtools elisp
- emacs-18.58 gcc-2.2.2 gdb-4.6 ghostscript-2.4.1 ghostview-1.2 gnumake-3.62
- gnuplot-3.1 groff-1.05 jove-4.14 libg++-2.0 libtiff m3-2.07 mawk
- pbmplus sc-6.19 sps top-3.0 transfig-2.1 xdtm-2.4 xdump xfig-2.1.4
- xspread) and more, in a format where you can slap it in and run it, or
- NFS export it, or copy it piecemeal to a hard disk. We have secured
- funding, and we have a ship schedule and resources and this will happen.
- Eventually. We'll also make deltas to the kits available for FTP, or
- complete kits, for that matter.
-
- mjr.
-