In article <3274@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:

| >  A good reason to buy a CD_ROM drive, though, instead of reading stuff
| >off one at work and bringing it home.
| 
|       I agree.  I have the Simtel20 disc that Walnut Creek also produces, and
| I will never ftp to that site again.  Ftp is just too slow, and browsing can be
| an agony.  With the disc, I can grep all of the readme files, or pluck out one
| file that I need.  I can fire up Emacs on the master index and search for

  Are these the people who said they'd give a free disk to contributors
of the software? I wrote to then about that, because I was moderator of
cbip for three years, and push at least 30-40MB of those contributions
out my modem on their way to Simtel20. I guess it only applies to
/authors/ of the software, though, because I never got a disk from them.

  Since compressed data works as well on CD-ROM as anywhere else, I
think there's room for lots of stuff on that platter, maybe the
source.misc and source.unix, or simtel20 unix collection, etc. Ithink
all of Linux stuff in a good compressed format would fit in 50MB,
leaving lots of room for other stuff.
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.