jhc@mtune.ATT.COM (Jonathan Clark) (11/06/87)
People have been asking about how to receive STORE! floppies for their UNIX PCs, and Susan Woodbury's phone number has cropped up on the net once or twice. Well, if you call that number, you'll likely get the AUDIX answering machine, and a long wait until you get your floppy, as Susan has one or two other things on her plate, and she's busy off doing one of them at the moment and isn't at that desk too often. You are much better off calling (201) 957 2933, and asking the clerk on the other end of it (Gail is her name, at the moment) to send you the STORE floppy you desire. At one point we were putting together a package suitable for posting to the net which would be a uuencoded installable version of THE STORE! install floppy. I will try and find out here that is hiding (probably deep under the dust on my desk), and get it posted. So if people will hold off for a couple of weeks then something might drop through their netnews feed. There are a (large) number of programs on THE STORE! which are only accessible to AT&T types, of which my HDB uucp port is one. AT&T sells this package through the AT&T Toolchest, the phone number of which I have forgotten (after all, *I* never use it), and they got peeved at the thought of giving this package away. Someday, perhaps. -- Jonathan Clark jhc@mtune.att.com, attmail!jonathan The Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (11/11/87)
As quoted from <1325@mtune.ATT.COM> by jhc@mtune.ATT.COM (Jonathan Clark): +--------------- | There are a (large) number of programs on THE STORE! which are only | accessible to AT&T types, of which my HDB uucp port is one. AT&T sells | this package through the AT&T Toolchest, the phone number of which I | have forgotten (after all, *I* never use it), and they got peeved at | the thought of giving this package away. Someday, perhaps. +--------------- I didn't see a 3B1 binary listed for HDB the last time I called the Toolchest, and I'm not interested in sources (even if they *are* cleaner than the old UUCP, which sources I've seen on other systems). Is it REALLY going to put a cramp in AT&T's style to distribute a binary-only copy that isn't available to us peons otherwise except in source form? Please pass this article to the powers-that-be at AT&T and see what they have to say. If they've made 3B1 binaries available on the Toolchest since the last time I checked, then okay, otherwise they either should do so or should consider making it available to the general 3B1-using public on the STORE!. -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {harvard!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc "This... is the helm." "Unless there've been some changes I don't know about!"