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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Archive-name (was Re: wp2latex (1 of 4))
Message-ID: <6425@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 00:08:01 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <9008211455.AA02499@talos.pm.com> kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
> BTW, I'm all for helping the archivers, but I'd like to see the
> benefits of Archive-name explained in a bit more detail.

How about "Hey, where did you say that program was?" "Look at frotzcom1.3 in
your local alt.sources archive." You don't *need* file names, ever. Forth
proves that. But they can be real convenient.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.