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From: rmtodd@uokmax.uucp (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Monthly posting on USENET manual set
Keywords: manuals, usenet
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.034930.7175@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 11 Sep 90 03:49:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep06.215045.25117@virtech.uucp> <4547@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <5552@stpstn.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) writes:
>Suggestion #3, keep doing what you are doing.  I bought a copy of the
>manuals from you, and they are well worth the price.  Since I am not
>on the Internet, suggestion #1 wouldn't work for met.

Well, most of the software (and docs) mentioned is available for anon.
ftp from osu-cis, but I must agree that the manual set is one heck of
a deal.  Consider: he wants ~$42 dollars for the set of docs
consisting of ~1000 pages.  Now, since I'm at a University with access
to their laser printer pretty much at-cost, I could print out all that
stuff.  But in doing so, not only would I severely tick off the
Student Assistant by making him change the paper tray all the time
(those trays only hold ~100 sheets), but the University charges 10
cents per page, so that entire set of manuals would cost me $100 to
print out myself, and it'd come out in 8-1/2x11 sheets instead of the
smaller, more convenient 8-1/2x5-1/2 sheets of the Cahill manuals.
See why I went with Conor Cahill's manual set? Even if I only need to
use half of the documentation, I still come out ahead.  

>Now what I need is for someone like you to make the code available on
>my favorite medium.  Hmmm, UUNET will sell me 600 megabytes on 6250
>bpi half inch tapes for $175.  Wow.  Now what I need is the disk space
>and time to do something with it all.
Not to mention the time to get those tapes converted to something I can 
actually read (not having a 6250bpi 9-track on my Mac...)  Agreed, the UUNET
tapes are also a heck of a deal...

Well, I'd like at the very least pointers to locating all the software 
mentioned.  I know where to get most of the major software packages (C News,
GCC, GDB, etc.) and in fact already have most of them, but pointers to the
more obscure ones would be helpful.  (Speaking of which, does anyone know
where I can get a copy of the "pexpire" program for C News, that automatically
lowers the expire times on newsgroups that nobody reads?  Sounds like a really
useful tool, and I don't recall finding it in any of the comp.sources groups...)
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  
"Bible-punching heavyweight evangelistic boxing kangaroos..."