aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) (10/02/89)
Now that the initial flurry has died away, I thought I might get my bit
heard.
Although this item comes to you straight out out of the hole in the
world, I am really half-way round the world from most of you. (Both
sides of the Atlantic). The cost of talking to the appointed four
commercial boards cited is almost entirely comms charges, and since by
and large I don't need to use them in the course of my employment, I
haven't spent the dollars necessary to become familiar enough with their
workings to quickly download the file in question, so the sort of dollar
values quoted are probably way too low.
Fair enough, I can wait for my dealer to get it you say. Well when 1.3
was released, it took about 3 months to get to the dealers here in
Australia (New Zealand, just a short sail across the way, got it a
month earlier - and I believe they are handled from here!)
I am pretty sure that CBM in Sydney have a copy (they have access to BIX
I believe) but there has been no dissemination, even to Certified
Developers.
While on that topic, I sent off my money and form to CATS in mid April,
but have had absolutely no response - any others with similar
experience?
Now for my suggestion to Dave, if he's listening. Here in Australia our
equivalent of USenet (or whatever it's called) - ACSnet - has a utility
that allows country-wide file transfer, "fetchfile", and a few machines
have public fetchfile areas that act as repositories for whatever
material is desired. If Dave was to mail (electronically or
physically) to one of these areas, would this be any different to the
current four boards in operation? Transfer only takes place by request,
and the source material is secure.
One such site is steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (or you can mail me :-)).
Keep the updates flowing, if you push enough in your end, they might
eventually come out ours :-)
Allan Duncan ACSnet aduncan@rhea.trl.oz
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Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) (10/04/89)
For those who were mystified by my previous posting, replace the first
occurrence of "world" with "wall".
We have been isolated from news for a fortnight for various reasons, so
I don't know how far back the original has got (or what has been
happening either :-( )
Allan Duncan ACSnet aduncan@rhea.trl.oz
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Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.