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- From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Subject: Not a modest proposal (was Re: 3.0 CD-ROM is *really* shipping.)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.051726.3741@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- References: <1992Sep11.045918.25941@Princeton.EDU> <1992Sep11.211445.22102@cs.sfu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:17:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.211445.22102@cs.sfu.ca> oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard O'Neill) writes:
- >So, it is here. Even better is the fact that there are very few files
- >only available as part of compressed packages, so people like me with small
- >hard drives can mount the CD-ROM and access documentation and occasionally
- >used tools straight from that, freeing up hard disk space.
- >
- >The only things in packages only are:
- >
- > English.pkg (contains on-line help stuff)
- > NeXTTeX.pkg (the only annoying one for me, since I use TeX occasionally)
- > NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg
- > Sybase_DB-Library.pkg
- >
-
- Is any 3.0 owner willing to take the time to post a complete filelist of
- what's on the 3.0 CD-ROM? That would certainly answer a lot of questions.
- If size is really a problem, submitting the list to a suitable ftp site
- would be great too.
-
- >Regards,
- >
- > Richard.
- >--
- >Composing a suitably apt and witty | [Mail to home machine is down right now]
- >signature and disclaimer is left | oneill@fornax.UUCP | NeXTmail OK, but
- >as an exercise for the reader. | oneill@cs.sfu.ca | not >100K OK!
-
- George
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