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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Programming self-help
Keywords: programming sources utilities archive
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Date: 9 May 90 18:54:20 GMT
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saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:

>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
> ...

Ok.  I will volunteer.  I don't have a lot of free time but I can dedicate
a constant amount each week to it.  What I expect to happen is I will get a
lot of contributions and it will take a month or two to get the first version
made.  Then I will send a copy to each volunteer to review.  After that I will
post something once a month that will indicate where to find the file/files
and how to use them.

Here is what you should do:

    a) Ignore this message and wait a few months for this to come together
	or die a horrible death.

    b) Send me contributions.  It can be as small as you want or as big
	as you want, C-code or text describing whatever.  All submissions
	should be Public Domain or Free use if author's name remains in
	comments.  I will not accept anything that is copywrited, shareware
	or has any 'catches' except for inclusion of the submitter's name.
	When you make your submission let me know if you want to be a 
	reviewer of the document before it gets posted.

	I would like source code for working GEM programs even if you don't
	want the code itself posted.  I would like some example GEM programs
	to play with.  Simple or complex.  When you send in stuff keep in
	mind I am a c-hacker by trade but I have a very limited knowledge of
	Atari internals.

On another note.  A few months ago I posted asking if there was any
interest in a GCR mailing list.  I recieved 1 reply.  I am still willing
to run one if I get enough people on the list.

dav@dartmouth.edu