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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
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Date: 30 Aug 90 20:59:00 GMT
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Not to pick on anyone in particular, but what the $%*&! do you want
for free?

It is certainly easy to suggest that C news be (or the installation
scripts) be modified/"fixed" to do things the "right" way, but those
that "do" decide "how."  Distributing software which attempts to run
on a wide variety of platforms is a difficult task; each of us has
their own idea of what the "best" way is.

louie

P.S. Count your blessings that C news doesn't try to convert unsigned
longs to/from doubles!  My NTP daemon had to be shipped with a
compiler test for that case since the majority of platforms got it
wrong!  It's a cold, hard world out there..