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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: sending source code
Message-ID: <244@splut.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 13:31:34 EST
Article-I.D.: splut.244
Posted: Sat Nov 14 13:31:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 20:04:30 EST
References: <631@louie.udel.EDU> <332@uvicctr.UUCP> <2566@umn-cs.UUCP> <939@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: Only one problem, Greg...

In article <939@hao.UCAR.EDU>, woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
> I suggest that it is more reliable and more cost efficient to send mag
> tapes via traditional shipping methods. That way, those who benefit
> from the transmission pay the cost of it instead of us. 

There's only one problem with this, Greg: I can't stuff a DC2000, or a
9-track tape, into the 5-1/4 inch drive that represents the only removable
mass storage on my system. I'd be happy to pay for someone to send me a
stack of floppies, but there are precious few out there that can write
either 1.2 meg or 360K floppies in cpio format that my Microport system can
read that have the tape drives as well...

Don't get me wrong: I greatly appreciate the backbone's generosity. Until
wel can come up with a way to get stuff from the VAXen that some folks (not
necessarily you) think that all the world runs to the rest of the machines
in the real world, this will continue...

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