Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 17:01:55 GMT References: <3461@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan6.004313.8792@zoo.toronto.edu> <3463@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 24 In article <3463@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: >I think that's what I said. However, if you post code that should be widely >usable and it doesn't run on the most popular varients of Unix available, then >I have to question if that is due to the inability to get on a system to test >the code or the "ivory tower attitude" that the varient is broken and the >providers of the varient should fix their code in order that your code should >work. Look, Henry and Geoff have maintained the explicit position that their goal is not universal applicability. Given this, I don't see any problem with their attitude. To use a commercial analogy, the fact that they aren't interested in "selling" to a part of the "market" that wants to "buy" is not really their problem. C News is their code. They don't claim it will work for everyone, after all. Besides, they give you the source, so you can always take the traditional UNIX approach and fix it yourself :). -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "There are two ways to write bug-free code; only the third way works." --unknown consultant