9 Jul
2002
9 Jul
'02
2:53 a.m.
Hi -
From: "Gregg C Levine"
<drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net>
2.11BSD"
"up to the current patch level can be obtained via anonymous ftp to"
"ftp.iipo.gtegsc.com in the directory /pub/2.11BSD"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have tried connecting to it, and my client tells me it does not exist. But
Indeed. That's the trouble/curse of the Internet - it's not possible
to go around and fix/change all the references to names that change
as companies get bought/sold
That was a long long (quad_t? ;)) time ago. GTE sold their
Government Systems Corporation ('gsc') to General Dynamics several
years ago. After a while GTE of course insisted we stop using
'gtegsc' - then a little later GTE became Verizon.
Try "ftp.to.gd-es.com"
For now. The idjits in charge are playing
at reorganizing and I think sometime next year the domain name will
change yet again - but the hope is that the current name will
be retained for a while as a compatibility measure.
Steve, are you continuing the work described in the
file? And can you get
It's been a slow couple years - only a couple updates done last
year and only one or so this year. Current patchlevel's at 442
(done Jan 2002).
Yes, the archive of updates is maintained. I think there are a
couple mirrors but I have no accurate count of who is mirroring
the directory
Steven Schultz
sms(a)2bsd.com