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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2100000)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Binaries in comp.windows.ms
Keywords: My opinion
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Date: 27 Jul 90 23:13:10 GMT
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In article <5625@milton.u.washington.edu>,
markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes:
Mark> Please post binaries to comp.sys.binaries or whatever it is and
Mark> not to comp.windows.ms. Then how about a <SHORT> announcement to
Mark> comp.windows.ms that so-and-so binaries are now available.

The only problem with this scenario is the month (or so) lag time
between sending something to the comp.binaries.ibm.pc moderator and
actually seeing it in the newsgroup. With revisions occuring so
frequently now, this could lead us to be very out of date.

The thing to do is to upload to an agreed upon central repository like
cica.cica.indiana.edu (pub/pc/win3) and making a short announcement in
this newsgroup that it has been uploaded giving the full path with
filename. This way, those of us without anonymous ftp, can get to the
file using the bitftp mail server.

Anyway, please stop uploading to just your favorite repository (i.e.
terminator or whatever) and make sure that one (probably
cica.cica.indiana.edu) always has the latest version of Windows 3
stuff. It would also be nice for someone with ftp access to volunteer
to upload things to the repository for those of us without ftp access
(we could mail something to them in uuencode/split format); any
takers?

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