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From: bd@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Bob Desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Request for Software to Help Collaborations
Message-ID: <10200001@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 90 19:47:54 GMT
References: <15830@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Organization: HP Software Engineering Systems, Palo Alto
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> A small group of people are working together on a paper.  We are at
> different sites, but can send email to each other.

Check out asd, a program for Automatic Software Distribution,
available from the AT&T Toolchest.  It's pretty cheap:  only $250
(a year ago) for sources, and you'll probably spend two or three
times that in hours to write shell scripts.

Asd uses mail and uucp, so you'll need a uucp connection between
machines.  But if you're working together on a project, it makes
sense to lash your machines together somehow, if only for the improved
communication speed.

-- bd