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From: tower@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Anyone archiving GNU stuff at Berkeley?
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Date: 5 Apr 88 05:34:18 GMT
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This is partly a test of the mailing lists, but ...

   Date: Fri, 1 Apr 88 13:33:26 +1200
   From: Andrew Vignaux <andrew@comp.vuw.ac.nz>

   I realise that this is too general a forum for this question but I am
   not sure how to aim this message to INFO-GNU readers in California.

   #ifdef SOB_STORY
   Out here, at the edge of the world, it is extremely difficult and
   expensive to get any software and/or to keep up to date.  Therefore it
   is a cause for celebration and much scrambling for tapes, whenever
   anyone goes overseas to a possible archive site.
   #endif /* SOB_STORY */

   My father will be visiting the Department of Industrial Engineering and
   Operations Research in the School of Engineering at Berkeley during
   the middle of May (8-22).  Is there anyone nearby who could help him
   to get recent copies of GNU software and other things (especially g++,
   GNews and Common Tex)?

   If you can help, could you send email so we can arrange details.

   Just so this message is not a complete waste of bandwidth, can anyone
   release any more GNUs especially estimated completion of kernel/file
   system (e.g. mid 90s?). [did I mention we are starved of news as well?]

   Thanks,
     andrew
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