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From: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: uport questions
Message-ID: <444@uport.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 05:55:31 GMT
References: <2569@alembic.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article <2569@alembic.UUCP> bill@alembic.UUCP (Bill Hatch) writes:
>Can anyone provide some answers or possibly informed opinions on the
>following two questions:
>
>	1. When will Microport ship the next 386 Unix release to
>	   their update service subscribers ?

I will be able to post an answer to this on Sept 8th.  'till then
marketing says I have to keep my mouth shut. :-(

>	2. How do I, as a current hotline subscriber, download the
>	   386-fix/format file from the Microport BBS ?

With the bbs software, using kermit or xmodem.  Anonymous uucp is only
allowed for PD stuff - we *can not* allow non licensees access to AT&T
derived anything.  Sorry.

>I e-mailed these information requests to Microport (unet!uport!techs)
>about a week ago - either they have not answered yet or I messed up

I got your msg about 2-3 days ago, about the time I found that a mail
file > 300K makes elm 1.7 get *very* confused. :-(

	-John Plocher