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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
In-Reply-To: jim@crom2.uucp's message of 16 May 91 15:49:58 GMT
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 23:36:26 GMT

In article <1991May16.154958.13266@crom2.uucp> jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes:

	True for system-related software.  There are tons of places to get
   EMACS and Perl and pathalias and so on.  But emphatically *not* true for
   other kinds of software -- in particular scientific software, which is
   one of the principal justifications of the Internet, and BITNET, and
   BITFTP.

i'm working on a snappy interface to comp.archives so that you can
browse and search through software reviews, decide what it is that you
want, and have the latest and greatest version of it fetched back for
you.  the target audience is people who do not have a dedicated leased
line to the internet but who could afford uunet-style rates to do part
time dialup IP.  it'll have an interface to something like "archie" as
well.

details as they are worked out.

not free like BITFTP, but it should be much better.

--Ed