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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Programming self-help
Summary: Any way we can make LITTLE sources generally available?
Keywords: programming sources utilities archive
Message-ID: <1990May4.163735.9794@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 May 90 16:37:35 GMT
Reply-To: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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Right off the bat: I'm not volunteering to manage this, and it REQUIRES a
manager, so the idea may be doomed.

There are a lot of questions of the form "How do I get the ST to do job X
in language Y".  These are well answered with small example programs.  It
gets messy to try to save all of these examples in any kind of organized
manner, and there's a tendency to forget whether a particular question has
already been answered.  The answers are generally too small for reasonable
sources postings.  It would be useful if someone were to collect and index
these little sources, solicit new ones, link the originals to corrections
and updates, and generally keep them available.  Any offers?  Better ideas?

What I will offer to do is contribute a few goodies of this type myself.

                                  Steve J.