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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.i386,news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Monthly posting on USENET manual set
Keywords: manuals, usenet
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.010647.7435@virtech.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 90 01:06:47 GMT
References: <1990Jun11.221620.1398@virtech.uucp> <1990Jun12.144957.8879@liebert.uucp>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Jun12.144957.8879@liebert.uucp> esd@liebert.UUCP (Eric Scott Deese) writes:
>Well heck, why not make a (small) profit on it.  While you are at 
>it, why not just package up the binaries for 386/ix, ESIX, SCO UNIX
>and SCO XENIX.  Try to include as much of the GNU stuff as

I am in the progress of putting everything together for a *source* tape
that has the most recent source code for all of the programs in the manual
set.  However, the realistic costs for making and shipping a tape approach
$100 which is too much for most people.  (That is the price that I have the
X11R4+fixes available for and only a few people have asked for it).

I have not fully considered the problems with making a binary distribution,
but I don't think they are small.  Problems with configuration, maintenance
updates, testing, QA, returns, etc all come to mind.

-- 
Conor P. Cahill            (703)430-9247        Virtual Technologies, Inc.,
uunet!virtech!cpcahil                           46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160
                                                Sterling, VA 22170