keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (10/28/89)
In article <GHODSI.89Oct26111233@shire.cs.psu.edu> ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) writes: > >I need the DOS version of tar. Does anybody know where I >can get it from? > >thanks. > >ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu [First of all, my apologies to 'ghodsi,' whoever that might be, because his/her posting doesn't, in and of itself, deserve this response. But it, combined with all the others like it, prompt my reply. - kde] I've got a copy (of tar, in this case; lot's of other things, too). If you'll let me know if you're at Portland State Universiy and not Pennsylvania State University I'll send it to you. But I won't send it to Penn St U! I wouldn't waste the phone time of everyone between Beaverton and Ohio to send it, simply because I'm certain someone closer to Ohio than I (in Oregon) can send it, probably even locally. By the way, this friendly reminder is very definitely NOT meant to harass 'ghodsi' but is posted (again, and again, and...) to try to get you "please send me a copy of _____________" folks to at least give us possible responders a g** d*** CLUE as to where you are, OK? OK! I mean, even looking at the full header often hides the original poster - tek connects directly to UUNET, for example, and who _knows_ where the other end of that connection might be... So if you're posting a request for an email reply, please indicate your GEOGRAPHICAL location as well as a return email address so we'll know whether or not it's efficent to reply to you or not. Without knowing that you're relatively close to my site I won't be mailing out anything that is going to cost someone else a bunch of money solely for _your_ benefit. Moreover, I would really like to suggest that people post these requests to a locally restriced distribution of this (or other) news group(s) before blasting away at large. I mean, just how much do you want (often someone else) to pay in 'phone bills, anyway. (Is it true that UNIX is not really a computer operating system but simply a great, grand plan by AT&T to rack up higher long distance telephone charges with news and e-mail? :-) Thank you very MUCH! kEITHe