From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 17:01:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16856 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04240; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804110000.TAA04240@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: shipping In-Reply-To: from "Jason C. Wells" at "Apr 10, 98 03:43:10 pm" To: jcwells@u.washington.edu Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: warzycha@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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