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From: Richard Uhtenwoldt roo@riv...
Subject: [9fans] Re: failed installation of the 3 diskette system
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:32:41 -0800 (PST)

G. David Butler writes:
>I used to provide a distribution set, but I don't any longer.
>If you want to know why we (anybody with the shrink-wrap
>license) can NOT, see http://www.dbSystems.com

okay, I read that last Web page, and the shrinkwrap license.
seems to me that you could distribute a diff against the
standard distribution set.  (the xdelta program, an alternative
to "diff" and "patch", can deal gracefully with binary files.)

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