Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!mirror!rayssd!galaxia!dave From: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: The STORE! Message-ID: <518@galaxia.zone1.com> Date: 29 Sep 88 03:56:25 GMT References: <698@bacchus.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley) Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System Lines: 35 In article <698@bacchus.UUCP> darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein) writes: > ... Is it possible to run >the STORE! software off a UNIXpc? If so, I'd be more than willing to >run it. The STORE is a neat concept but I can see where it would be a pain in the butt to maintain. When I bought my machine about a dozen others bought them too. Most of them are UNIX neophites so I try to support them by testing out all the software that comes across the net and then passing it along. The format they prefer for me to use is the "install" format used by the STORE. Setting up the installable files, building the remove scripts, making sure all the files get set to the right permissions, etc., takes a lot of time. I have not been overly impressed by some of the program that I have downloaded from the store but I have to say that the packaging was top notch. Now that I have moaned and groaned about how hard it is to set up install files, let me say that I would like to see the STORE, or another system running the same software, be continued. Actually, the only thing that the STORE system needs to have in terms of software is uucp. The programs that run on our machines know what file name to fetch when you order any given package. All you need to do is convince the program that does the ordering to send the uucp request to a machine other than "shop". If the software that generates the catalog and the software for the PC side can be obtained from ATT, what would be really good is if we could get a dozen or so machines scattered around the country to act as alternate STORE machines. I am willing to have my machine act as a STORE host with the caveat that I usually only have about 5 meg of disk space free so I'm not sure if I could hold the entire catalog on line. Maybe we could take up a collection and buy bigger disk drives for anyone that is willing to act as a STORE host. :-) -- David H. Brierley Home: dave@galaxia.zone1.com ...!rayssd!galaxia!dave Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {sun,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhb