Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: wp2latex (1 of 4) Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 15:15:57 GMT References: <-335ZE6@xds13.ferranti.com> <6443@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <-Z45SQ2@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <1990Aug14.003446.19241@NCoast.ORG> <1990Aug16.151010.17925@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu's message of 16 Aug 90 15:10:10 GMT christopher lishka complains (quite rightly) that posting a large piece of source code to the net and satisfying everyone is hard. (even if the code works perfectly). shar formats, archive header information, etc are all problematic. alt.sources is entirely samizdat, you get no help from nobody. If you have something you want to share and it's finished and it can wait a few days, send it to comp.sources.misc (if it's smallish) or comp.sources.unix (if it's biggish or brilliant). It might take a little while. Brandon and Rich are pro's at this, they know how to deal with 40 part mixed text and binary horrors, so anything you throw at them they can shar. there are a number of other ways of distributing things. find an ftp site that will take your works; comp.archives or the Granrose list are good candidates. Better yet, find an FTP site that also has anonymous UUCP or mail server access so that you can tell everyone who asks how to get it. bitnet listserv's might be appropriate too for some if they're locally handy. If you announce your new software in any of over a hundred newsgroups, I'll probably find it and mention it to comp.archives. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept moderator, comp.archives.