From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 7 03:38:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23308 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 03:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA23291; Thu, 7 May 1998 03:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA14541; Thu, 7 May 1998 20:07:48 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980507200748.J12200@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 20:07:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer , Mariusz Potocki Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Shoecraft Subject: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Thu, May 07, 1998 at 02:27:01AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998 at 2:27:01 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Mariusz Potocki wrote: > >> >> On 07-May-98 Julian Elischer wrote: >>> Steve Shoecraft wrote: >>>> >>>> It'd be no problem for me to FTP the tar file and give it try... I >>>> PROMISE I'll delete it when I'm done... >>>> >>> That wouldn't be quite what nc had in mind by 'demo' :-) >> >> I lost some mail from this thread, so sorry if I'm off topic. >> It would be great if someone let access to some Oracle binaries. >> I know it's semi legal, but for some experiments, for choosen guys... > > I have the binaries but I'm not in a position to give them out as they are > on an NC server we are evaluating. however I can say that they DO work.. > > My best suggestion is for people to NAG ORACLE and NC! > you need to get pressure at the sales office. Julian's right. It seems that nagging convinced O'Reilly to publish a FreeBSD book, despite years of attempts on my part (and proof that the book was selling well). Oracle seems a good next target. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message