Dear Colleague:

We are delighted, at long last, to send your 4.4BSD-Lite distribution. The 4.4BSD-Lite software is copyrighted by the University of California and others, but may be freely redistributed without fee. Recipients of this tape are not required to have a license from AT&T, Novell/USL, or The Regents of the University of California. The distribution includes both software developed at Berkeley and much software contributed by authors outside Berkeley. The code in this distribution may be redistributed and used in released products without fee, if the due credit, copyright notice, and other requirements described in the license and the source files are met.

"This distribution is a source distribution only," "and does not contain program binaries for any architecture." You have received either a single Exabyte tape, or two 6250 9-track tapes. The Exabyte tape contains a single tar(1) image of the distribution with a ``20b'' blocking factor. The 9-track distribution contains a single tar(1) archive on each tape, also with a ``20b'' blocking factor. The first tape contains everything on the distribution except 4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/contrib; the second tape contains 4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/contrib. Both tapes contain paths starting from 4.4BSD-Lite, so they can be extracted in either order.

Your distribution includes a single set of 4.4BSD manuals. Rather than typesetting the manuals ourselves, we have arranged to use the manuals being produced by O'Reilley. Because of the delay between the release of the tape and the publication of the manuals, we do not expect to have manuals to ship until late June. Rather than hold up your distribution, we have shipped your tape now and will follow it up with a copy of the manuals when they are available. If you would prefer a photocopy of the 4.4BSD manuals that is available now instead of a copy of the O'Reilley manuals later, contact us at the address below, and we will arrange to ship it to you.

If you have questions about your distribution or have difficulty in reading your distribution tape, you may call Pauline Schwartz at (510) 642-7780, write to her, or contact her via electronic mail at pauline@cs.berkeley.edu.

Sincerely yours,
Marshall Kirk McKusick
Keith Bostic

Computer Systems Research Group