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From: marksv%t3d@uk.ac.man.cs
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Subject: Re: comp.binaries.acorn anyone?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 16:40:48 GMT
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In article <1126@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> x51@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Excursiecommissie) writes:

>At the moment I am downloading and storing everything that appears on this 
>group and, just for consistency, I also stored the Nethack posting.
>If the binaries posting were to be in a binaries group, and the poster would
>leave a message in the c.s.a. group, EXPLAINING WHAT HIS POSTING DOES!
>Then I think everyone would be happy.
>
>It's just that I have to download, uudecode, uncompress 1 Megabyte of data,
>before I know what it's good for and this is getting too silly.

Well, noone is *forcing* you to download 1 Megabyte of data! If you
don't know WHAT IT IS then try looking in rec.games.hack which is an group
devoted to nethack. It is a *massive* game usually found on UN*X machines
(hence the creation of unixlib by Huw Rogers!), of the D&D genre. Methinks
the original poster thought that such a classic would need no introduction.
 It seems he was wrong, but a little bit of courtesy wouldn't hurt!



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