Hi everyone,
A number of people have complained to me about not being able to unpack the
tarball with Ultrix V4.20 sources that has been on my FTP site since May 2001.
I have finally found the time to look into the problem and indeed the file was
corrupt. Fortunately, I was able to read my old backup tapes (from Cleveland,
OH, 1999-07-15) without any problems, and discovered to my great joy that this
file was good on my Cleveland machine. (It apparently got corrupted in one of
the turbulent moves from Cleveland to Dallas, TX and then to Orange County, CA.
I don't have any idea how.)
ivan.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/sources now contains *good*
Ultrix V2.00 and V4.20 sources. (Be warned, though, that this machine resides
in my cave which is connected to the outside world through a modem which
usually connects at 31200 BPS, sometimes 28800. Feel free to set up a mirror.)
For what it's worth, I have also put up my Ultrix V4.20 distribution tape
images in /pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/ult420vaxdist-tk50. They are quite
incomplete, however, as when I had the tape in my hand (at CWRU in spring 1998)
I was unable to read it entirely without errors. Therefore, the V4.00 tape
images in /pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/ult400vaxdist-tk50 will probably be
more useful for most people. If you have the guts, install V4.00 and then
recompile V4.20 from the sources!
--
Michael Sokolov
Programletarian Freedom Fighter
International Free Computing Task Force
Let the Source be with you
Programletarians of the world, unite!
Received on Fri Jan 31 2003 - 19:53:00 GMT