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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Obtaining Phil Karn's TCP/IP code
Message-ID: <71@winfree.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 12:28:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 12:28:10 1987
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In article <389@louie.udel.EDU> galvin@UDEL.EDU (James M Galvin) writes:
>From: Paul Congdon 
>> Why doesn't someone just post the source....  It can't be all that big.

			No No No No No!

The package *IS* big, though much, much smaller than the PC/IP source
distribution.  Much easier for those who care to get it from louie, via
uucp, or from my bbs.  Why make the whole world pay distribution charges
for something so few have an immediate need for?

The code on louie was just updated by Phil to rev 870526.5, which contains
quite a few internal changes from the .0 release.  I'm working on integrating
his changes with stuff from a *lot* of other folks to issue another major
release.  I'd really hate to waste net bandwidth with code that's about to
be obsolete, since I assume most folks have 870526.0...

If we ever get a release that we're happy with, maybe a post to one of the
sources groups would be appropriate.  With the rate things are changing right
now, I don't think so.

The big news for this group is that the new release in a week or two will
have support for running as a single process under bsd or sysV.  Assume that
with a serial port driver for Minix (I don't have one?  Did the post not
get here?), that it will be trivial to bring it up there too as a single
process.  Not wonderful, but a start!

>The compressed tar file on our machine is 1/2 meg.  The uncompressed tar
>file is almost 1 meg.  That is a LOT of stuff to be mailing around.  Do
>we really want that?

Thanks for asking and not posting!
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