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From: brooks@Apple.COM (Kevin Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 3rd party product list
Message-ID: <44203@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 90 15:31:24 GMT
References: <44145@apple.Apple.COM> <33093@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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>	Let me know what else you would like to see on the server.
>	                                        ^^^
>With all due respect for the efforts of all the people doing this stuff, I'd
>like to see files which don't alienate those of us attempting to port products
>to an ostensibly ``UNIX'' platform.
>
>What's wrong with compressed cpio or tar archives whose textual material is
>formatted per [nt]roff or TeX standards so that ANYONE can read and/or process
>the material using the commonly available and/or "free" tools which accompany
>one's system(s)?

Yes, your right about the fact that everyone can run those utilities, but not 
everyone can easily create documents using those tools.

>If apple.com has the disk space for both forms (stuffit, and compressed UNIX
>archives), then by all means have both!  But a proprietary format designated
>for an expensive word processor smacks of "elitism" to me and controverts the
>spirit of cooperativeness which has accompanied the UNIX environment since its
>inception.

The list is not even being kept on apple.com, its being kept on an Macintosh IIx
running A/UX.  Disk space is not the problem.
 
>One answer to my query ("Is A/UX Viable?") several weeks ago suggested that
>Apple is serious about UNIX.  OK, I'm keeping an open mind; PROVE IT!

>Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]

All this just because you don't like the format???  All you had to do was ask
for the listing in another format. I was trying to do the user community a
favor by posting a document which is only available from AppleLink otherwise.
I am not the keeper of the document nor the creator, I am but one support
engineer at Apple who beleives that customers running A/UX have some special
needs and support requirments, thats why I started the info/update server in
the first place.

Its a fairly large document that is really ugly when stored as text
only file, I even spent an hour or so trying to clean it up before I
decided that if I had to do this everytime the list was updated I would
never get any real work done and the A/UX user community would never
see this document.

I hope that one of the reasons people will want to buy A/UX is for its
great support and I'll do everything I can do to help provide that
support.

I'll see about posting the list in a few different formats, how about
native postscript?

Kevin

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  Kevin Brooks 			A/UX Specialist, Apple Computer	   
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