Status of FREE U.S. Mail offer of Roell's server

[Stephen Hite]

   Well, I have finished my semester finals and was expecting at this time
to post my address, number of disks to send, etc.  Thomas Roell has informed
me that he will be issuing a NEW release of his 386/ix sVGA server with
the addition of the XView Toolkit in the next few weeks and has asked
me to hold off from distributing until then.  

   I have saved all of the e-mail addresses of those who want a personal
message sent to them when I'm ready to distribute.  I cannot do so now
because I have no idea how many disks this new release is going to be.
The current one is about 8 megs so I would guess 10 megs but let's just
wait and see.   

   For those of you who are reading this and don't know what the heck I'm
talking about because you missed my first posting, I am going to distribute
FREE of charge (well, you send the disks and take care of the postage,
obviously) Tom Roell's complete port of X to 386/ix v2.0.2 / v2.2.
This offer is ONLY for folks that DO NOT have access to the Internet
which would allow them to FTP the files for themselves.  The reason for
this is that I am not a free copy service for lazy people.  I am trying
to help distribute this excellent free software as widely as possible
so more people benefit and hopefully enjoy it as much as I do.
 
Those who are on the Internet can get Tom Roell's server at:

               /pub/i386/X11R4     [131.159.8.35]    in Europe
        
               /contrib            expo.lcs.mit.edu  USA  
                                   [18.30.0.212]

                 
The files at MIT will start with 386ix...tar.Z.  UUNET used to distribute
the binaries a couple of weeks ago but they dropped them either because
of disk space or because of the recent "legality" debate over Roell's
server.  Everyone please read Piercarlo Grandi's article now in 
comp.unix.sysv386...he knows what he's talking about and hopefully reading
it will help everyone to calm down.

P.S.  I have no knowledge of the Esix or SCO ports of Roell's server so
      I have no pointers to give.  The server will NOT run on Esix even 
      though it is common for binaries from 386/ix to run on Esix or vice 
      versa.

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Steve Hite                               "Give of yourself and ask 
UUCP:   ...gatech!uflorida!unf7!shite     nothing in return."
Internet: shite at sinkhole.unf.edu                  -anonymous