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From: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis
Summary: Incomplete postings will not be archived at SIMTEL20
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Date: 10 Nov 90 17:33:54 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
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rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan) writes:
>Elvis (in source form) was recently posted to alt.sources by the author.
>There was quite a lot of discussion in alt.sources and alt.sources.d
>after that, bug reports, etc., and a bug fix for the MS-DOS version 
>was put out (for one thing, renaming a file left lost clusters).

Bob, I did not mean to imply that your posting was suspect.  It is
not.  The bottom line is:

   I'm tired of seeing postings to comp.binaries.ibm.pc
   which contain only binaries.  Someone who looks at these
   archives months later has no idea where these files originated
   and who to contact when there is a question or problem.

I think Bill should reject all such postings, even when they originate
from known trusted sources.  There is no excuse for authors not to
include *some* documentation.  It should not be necessary to run the
program to find out what it's for and what the commands are.

>There WERE docs with this version.

What happened to them, Bill?  See alt.sources is NO answer.  Many
people do not have access to that newsgroup.  The programs posted here
should be complete.

Keith
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