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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: System V/386 groff distribution
Message-ID: <52804@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 13 Jan 91 20:46:37 GMT
References: <6877@crash.cts.com> <1991Jan13.010710.4714@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1991Jan13.010710.4714@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>, mhoffos@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
	wrote:

> Just as a matter of record, FTP sites are just about *non-existent*
> in Canada due to the overwhelming costs in maintaining the lines
> etc.

Somehow, news and mail arrive in Canada.  Whatever transport mechanism
does this is also capable of retrieving groff.

> Perhaps there should be a site that has both FTP and dial-in access
> (uunet is prohibitively expensive for most human beings).

uunet is *cheap*.  How much do you think a posting of that type costs?
Hint: for every site that gets news long distance, each such site
individually paid more than it would cost you to call uunet and
retrieve groff.

There are a number of sites that keep such things for anonymous uucp.
Ohio State comes to mind, and bigtex keeps a complete set of GNU
tools.
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