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From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: comp.sources.3b1
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.032323.10265@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:23:23 GMT
References: <326@sialis.mn.org> <11381@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA.
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In article <11381@pbhya.PacBell.COM> jacalca@PacBell.COM (JA "Cal" Calcaterra) writes:
>In article <326@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>An open general request:  When submitting source to
>>comp.sources.3b1, please consider the possibility that someone
>>won't have any idea as to what it is.  Please include a brief
>>description at the top of part 1 of n that describes what the
>>code that follows, actually does.

	[ ... ]
>
>I see that and raise it two   :-)
>

	[ ... ]

>My raise to the "open general request(s)" is:
>
> - to include clues to the code, items, things other than come with a stock
>   3b1, that posted source depends on.

	Add to that a note in the notes with the sources archives on osu-cis
which suggest other packages which should be snarfed at the same time to
complete a project.

	e.g.  a note in the discription of the package for making a bootable
		floppy-based system which recognizes the floppy-tape drive.
		Once you get it, you discover that you should have gotten
		the "kern" package, (which I already had), and the
		"config.sh.Z", which I did not have.  Since I have to 
		do my ftp access during work hours, and my 3b1/7300 work
		during home hours, this adds an extra day (if things go
		well) to the time needed to assemble such a package into a
		working form.

		Also, perhaps a note at the beginning indicating that Doug
		Gwyn's 'ndir' package is useful, the 'alloca.s' should be
		present if you're going to be building things from GNU,
		etc.  I've learned a lot of this in porting code to my old
		v7 machine (still 68000), and the unix-pc is a LOT easier to
		port code to, but still...

	Thanks
		DoN.
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