Where THE STORE! went....what packages are available

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <296 at mtune.ATT.COM> jrw at mtune.ATT.COM (Jim Webb) writes:
|>All....
|>
|>	As people have found out, THE STORE! has closed.  An end of
|>an era and all that :-)  In any case, the following packages can be
|>released to the world, but, please, I do not want any flames telling me
|>that HDB is not listed!  What is listed here is what I have been told
|>can be released.  I open the floor for suggestions on their distribution.
[...]
This is not a flame, but why in the world can't AT&T release HDB to
people who own these boxes, when for one the boxes aren't even sold,
two they are barely supported, and three the binaries to HDB won't affect
any future *sales* of AT&T products :-)

|>My 1st idea was to uuencode them and then post them to unix-pc.sources,
|>but I am open to suggestions since this would mean posting over 20,000
|>blocks to netnews in one shot, and that times the number of systems out
[...]
I vote *NO*!  I for one have everything that was ever on THE STORE! 
(including HDB) that was of any use.  20,000 blocks of uuencoded binaries
really doesn't have any place on the net.  Net Admins that pass unix-pc.*
but don't benefit from it certainly wouldn't like the added traffic.
A quick calculation says it would take approximately 25 hours of connect
time at 1200 baud (and lets face it, most UNIX pc's only use their OBM).

I'd consider putting up a limited STORE somewhere.  Where is still up
for debate locally.  If would venture to say that HDB would have been
the most wanted.  Since this is unavailable probably putting up a 
STORE-look-alike is useless.  

Also there are other places to get most of this.  On the Internet
for anonymous ftp, the public section of THE STORE resides on some
site. [uicbert.eecs.uic.edu       128.248.166.25]

Maybe if we can find out what people *want* Brant could place some of
it on osu-cis' ftp'able/uucp'able UNIX pc archives.

-Lenny
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