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Subject: Re: "pr" for dos
Message-ID: <1129@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 20:53:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 20:53:40 1987
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In article <2120@tekgvs.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
> In article <1108@uwmacc.UUCP> anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:

> >How about posting it to SIMTEL20's MSDOS
> >archive? That way everyone who wanted it later could get it.
 
> Uh, don't count on it. You have no idea how _frustrating_ it is to
> be stuck on the uucp side of things (?) with no access to the SIMTEL
> archives. (Or at least none that our UNIX and/or Telecomm people have
> come up with.)
 
Sorry, I guess I didn't realize that you had to have arpa access to get
SIMTEL20's stuff. Well, most of us wallow in ignorance of one or more
kinds. Sorry to have hit a nerve there. Now that I've reaped so many
wonderful (fun, anyway) benefits from access to SIMTEL20, I'd be grieved
as hell to be deprived of it. 

You gurus out there: is there no relief for a uucp-only site in this
matter? One of SIMTEL20's virtues, in my book, is the *vast* archive
of PD software (much, if not most, of it with binaries) they maintain.
Arpanet traffic is such that the most favorable time to move a large
file is in the dead of night.

There are various other net-accessible archives (some, like info-ibmpc,
carrying only sources). Although it seems to cause an outcry nearly
every time it happens, I watch this group like a hawk for the many
useful binaries that get posted here. Many people hate that, but I
like it. I note that an st binaries group has just been set up. I
assume the main factor is the existence of a person with a lot of
time and disk willing to do the (substantial) labor. 

> keith (post 'pr', please) ericson

pr got posted yesterday. Works like a champ, and was exactly what
I needed.
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