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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: simtel20 unix-c software archive
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 17:03:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230303010348.GC2758@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCBnZt4ECXbtp6Kn_VkdTMOCAD_Y31pRUaEHD7HwANpWxftAg@mail.gmail.com>

Wow.  There is an ftp site I haven't thought of in 30+ years.  Cool find!

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 01:43:57PM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> There was a well known ftp site in the early 1990s called
> simtel20.army.mil. It was mostly known as a repository for ms-dos
> utilities, but it also had a collection of source code to various
> user-contributed unix utilities. I just uploaded those to the Internet
> Archive: https://archive.org/details/oak-unix-c--full-mirror-1999.12.14

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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-03  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02 18:43 [TUHS] " A. P. Garcia
2023-03-03  1:03 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-03-03  1:06   ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall

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