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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Andy's comments on 1.5
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Date: 16 Feb 90 13:04:08 GMT
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In article <11127@nigel.udel.EDU> gs%ecs.southampton.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk writes:
>I was very interested to see Andy's comments on P-H releasing 1.5 in an
>unmanagable format for yet another price hike. 
What's wrong with the format?  Unless somebody can come up with a supercompress
program, it is going to take about 17 diskettes.  I don't see what else I can
do except leave out half the stuff.  As to price hike, 17 disks costs more than
10, and there will be 600 pages of paper along with it, including an up-to-date
listing.  While some people can print 400 page listings on their little matrix
printers, the quality is less than spectacular, and not everyone can or wants
to print out that much paper.


> Do we/could we not keep a maintained copy
>of the latest version somewhere for new bods such as myself to access in
>the certain knowledge that only future bug postings will apply?
It is permitted to archive all network message traffic, and that is being done,
but it is not permitted to keep an online copy of the complete system for
anonymous FTP or the like.  If you get 1.3, you can update to 1.5.0 from the
posted messages, but do it quickly.  1.5.3 will be coming up within a week.
I think something like 200 odd files have been affected since 1.5.0. However
I hope that 1.5.3 will be stable.  That will be the base for P-H's 1.5.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)