From: carlton@cs.berkeley.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SUMEX on CD-ROM
Date: 11 Nov 1992 22:17:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <0105012B.ibog51@dbmac.fdn.org> blaise@dbmac.fdn.org (Blaise  
THAUVIN) writes:
> Hi netters,
> 
> I've just read somewhere that the entire Sumex archive was available
> on CD from a private company, but I've deleted the message.
> 
> I despereatly need this CD because I don't have a ftp link here in
> France, and using my modem would be too expensive.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> Blaise

Here is the announcement that was posted to the info-mac digest
(vol 10, issue 247).  BTW, I got a copy of the CD-ROM and the service
was excellent.  They've done a good job putting this together.  The only
drawback is that many files aren't on the CD (presumably because they
weren't able to obtain permission in time).  There are lists of which
files are and aren't on the CD available.

cheers,
--mike (carlton@cs.berkeley.edu)

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Date: 13 Oct 92 19:36:11 EDT
From: Cliff Miller <71175.3152@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: [!] Info-Mac CD-ROM release

The Info-Mac CD-ROM that we posted about a couple months ago is finally
ready!
(For those of you who missed the original posting:  Cliff Miller and Joe
Novak, two CS grad students at the Univ of Utah, decided that putting the
Mac-Info on a quarterly CD-ROM would be a real service to the Mac community
and might provide a little extra funds for Info-Mac as well as for their own
(Cliff & Joe's) meager livelihood.  In the process, a small company has been
set up in the basement of Cliff's home to put together the CD and to take
orders.)

The CD-ROM contains all of the digests and many of the programs and other
files from the Info-Mac archive.  They were downloaded in August of 1992 and
the programs have been debinhexed/dearchived/decompressed, so that they are
ready to run.  All of the abstracts are also included along with the
programs.
 The CD-ROM preserves the basic structure of the original archive and it is in
HFS format, so it looks and behaves like a large Mac directory, as it should!
For those of you who like to look back over the digests, this should provide a
much more convinient way to search for discussions on various topics.

In putting files on the CD-ROM we have done our best to check through all of
the files for copyright restrictions.  In cases where there appeared to be
restrictions, we tried to contact the author for permission.  In over 95% of
the cases in which we received a message from the author, the answer was very
positive.  There were several files, however, that contain copyrighted
material from movies, soundtracks or other sources, so we had to leave those
off.  The upshot of all this is that about 3/4 of all of the files on Info-Mac
are included on the CD.  In future issues, as the CD-ROM becomes better known,
we hope that the number of programs will grow.

We have included a file on the CD-ROM indicating which files are on the CD and
which files are not on it (but are/were on the Info-Mac archive at
sumex-aim).
Unfortunately, by mistake this file contains some bogus filenames labelled as
eing in an "unknown" directory -- these files are not on the CD-ROM.  Please
also notice that the file names correspond to the original file names as
contained in the sumex-aim Info-Mac archive, and do not necessarily match the
uncompressed versions that are on the CD-ROM.  We are sorry about any
confusion this may create.

There were several excellent suggestions from people on the net, and we hope
to implement some of them in future (quarterly) issues.  Thank you all for the
encouragement, suggestions and help!  Most of all, thanks to the moderator of
Info-Mac, Bill Lipa, for the good ideas and the support!  (Let me once again
point out that neither he nor sumex-aim is legally responsible for the
CD-ROM.)  Further comments and suggestions by all will continue to be much
appreciated.

Cliff & Joe

  --- Ordering Info ---

  CD Price:     $39.95
  Shipping & H: $5.00

  VISA/MC or money orders OK

  Phone for orders:     800-765-8369
  Phone for inquiries:  801-278-2042
  Fax:                  801-278-2666

  Address:      Pacific HiTech
		4760 Highland Dr, Suite 204
		Salt Lake City, Utah 84117-5009

  Email:        CompuServe: 71175,3152

  When ordering by email, please send us the following info:

	Your name
	address
	phone number
	VISA/MC number & exp date

If you are an author of a program on the CD, you get a free disk. (We've also
decided to not charge authors for shipping and handling.)  Contact us with the
following information:
	1) your name,
	2) the name of your program, and
	3) the address where we should send the CD.

Please use our toll-free 800 number for orders only -- we're still students
and the company is of limited means.
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