Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:36 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: warzycha@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shipping Message-ID: <199804110000.TAA04240@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410153819.355I-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> from "Jason C. Wells" at "Apr 10, 98 03:43:10 pm"
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> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Peter Warzycha wrote: > > > I am currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan with the third marine > > division. I am interseted in buying a copy of the latest ver. of BSD > > but i noticed for over seas it is take 6-9 weeks ... i do have an > > FPO-AP mailing address... i was told that makes a difference for time > > of shipping and the cost to ship it... please get bacck to me with all > > the info you can supply to me thanks... > > Paul was correct about the cost of shipping. > > To send mail to an FPO is just like sending domestic mail. It may take a > while as FPO mail is subject to all of the trappings of the military > scenario. If you will be stateside soon (two months), you may as well > wait until you get back. > > It is my understanding that FreeBSD is highly popular in Japan. Perhaps > you can find a local copy? > As a FreeBSD-core member, I receive Japanese FreeBSD distributions periodically. Frankly, they are much sexier than the equiv Red Hat type distr in the USA. (nice, hard box, etc.) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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