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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The Lost Boys MINDBOMB Demo.
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.224449.28872@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 22:44:49 GMT
References: <7398@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <7398@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, d_alvear@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dom Alvear) writes:
>Also, I was wondering if there will ever be an index up at
>atari.archive that is easy to use and TELLS ME WHAT I'M ABOUT TO
>DOWNLOAD?
>
>Dom Alvear

Yikes!  Be cool, these guys do us a great service just from the kindness of
their hearts!  I find that the easiest thing to do is to check the newitems
section every couple of days (you could even cron this to work automatically).
I suggested a REVIEW folder a couple of months ago, where people could put 
small text files outlining what a program does and how well it does it.  I 
sheepishly admit that I never got on the ball and sent any reviews, but the 
atari.archive folks said they could do it.  I will send some review files 
in the next couple of days, ending in ".review".  Please, if you are using 
a program from atari.archive and you like it, do the same.  Since most of 
the stuff comes with doc files, I guess just a short description of the 
program's function, any errors or bugs encountered, and perhaps the names 
of other programs that do it better/worse would be sufficient.  
 
-- 
             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "God is a comedian playing to an 
          FSU Computer Science       |      audience too afraid to laugh."
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      email:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu  |                  - Voltaire