Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!zodiac.ukc.ac.uk!cur022 From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Austin Code Works Message-ID: <22239.2812f1b5@cluster@ukc.ac.uk> Date: 22 Apr 91 14:22:44 GMT References: <28057@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 16 In article , garym@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Gary Murphy) writes: > If you can read this message, everything you can get from ACW can be > had FOR FREE via ftp. Even if you have no direct ftp, you can get > files from most sites through the princeton pucc list-server. > True up to a pint. But, for example, how would I get hold of a copy of the larger GNU distributions this way? GNU EMACS would come out at about a hundred parts if mailed from the Princeton server. I don't have 9 inch magtape, or a Sun cartridge drive, so I can't go to GNU (FSF) direct. I don't condone ACW either. But they may be the only way for some people. -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Bob Eager | University of Kent at Canterbury | +44 227 764000 ext 7589 -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------