I'm going to summarize by including Dr. Tom Blinn's reply who best answered
the question. It turns out we are receiving the Campus software kits, that
which don't contain the desired CD, as opposed to the Standard kit that does
contain the "free" CD.
Thanks to Dr. Tom and all the others who promply replied!!
-Bill Sadvary
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 15:43:53 -0400
From: "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
X-Mts: smtp
> On April 1st, Charlie Jui wrote:
> >When I got a machine on loan from DEC, they included all kinds of goodies
> >which they claimed to ship for free with the system. Some of these include
> >an EDT-like editor called EDT++ (Boston Computers?), a VMS-like MAIL program,
> >a "VBACKUP" utility...etc.
> >
> >After getting my own alpha, I could not find any of these programs on the
> >OSF1 distribution and layered products CD's...nor are they on the
> >freeware CD.
> >
> >Can anyone point me to these programs?
>
> I am also in search of these products and have patiently waited for the
> Summary, and I am still waiting. Sigh. I sent a message to Charlie and
> received no reply. Maybe he's busy,... Anyways could someone answer the
> above riddle? I promise to summarize to the list.
They are definitely present in the standard media kit, which is shipping
today (and has been shipping for some time). In the standard media kit, the
CD in question has the external label AG-QBX6A-XE and is easily recognized
by its reddish-brown color, the word "FREE!" on the top line, and the name
"OpenVMS(tm) & DEC OSF/1(tm) Interoperability Tools". It's dated September
1994. This CD was first shipped with the DEC OSF/1 V3.0A update, and is in
all the current media kits.
Of course, if you didn't receive a standard media kit with your system (for
example, because you got some special campus software media kit because you
are at a university), you may not have received this CD.
If you believe you received a standard media kit for DEC OSF/1 V3.0A or one
of the later releases, and you did not receive this CD in your kit, please
double-check your Bill of Materials (a photo-copied sheet included in the
kit). If it's listed and you didn't get it, we erred. If it's not listed
we may have erred in not including it, but I'd need to know the exact part
number for what you received to be able to figure out what's wrong. If you
did receive such a kit, send me the information from the BOM and I can try
to find out why it's not there. The BOM will have the words "PART LISTING"
at the top, and show quantities, model numbers, revisions, and descriptions
of the components of the kit. I'd need to know the model number and rev of
the kit from the first line, as well as the date from the upper right corner
of the first sheet (it may be multiple sheets depending on what's in the
kit).
Unfortunately, our agreement with the companies that produced the software
on the CD is that we will not sell the CD separately, so it's only available
as part of a complete media kit.
In case you didn't know, the part number for the media kit is QA-MT4AA-H8,
and the current U.S. list price is $279.00.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 881-0646
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Received on Tue Apr 18 1995 - 16:34:36 NZST