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From: garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: If Sun Can Do It, Why Not HP?
Summary: I'll second the idea
Message-ID: <236@cmic.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 18:53:01 GMT
References: <31743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Califonia Microwave Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
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In article <31743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, dgreen@squid.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening) writes:
> From a README on uunet.uu.net's anonymous FTP site:
> 
> ----
> We are experimenting with a new mechanism for the distribution of some
> high-priority network bug fixes.  UUNET is a company that provides
> connectivity to the Internet as well as through UUCP.  There is a
> directory in ~ftp/sun-fixes on the machine uunet.UU.NET that currently
> contains the following files:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 sunfixes vendor     484687 Dec 14  1988 ddn.tar.Z
>  ...
> 
> And includes a large directory of patches.
> 
> Why not HP?
> 
> Dan Greening       | NY 914-789-7861 | 12 Foster Court
> dgreen@cs.ucla.edu | CA 213-825-2266 | Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520

A very good idea. I hope HP will pick up the gauntlet you have thrown down.
How about one the HP readers pulling these postings and mailing'm to the
HP-Desk types that can make this happen, since they don't get the news.

I'd also like to add the suggestion that HP put it's contributed software
there. Again, I feel uunet would be more than glad to help... but then
I can't speak for them. I would like to know if Sun pays for the privledge?
After all disk space is proportional to $$.

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