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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WinGIF?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.153220.18097@javelin.es.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:32:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.144606.14977@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar4.170703.8531@vision.uucp>
Reply-To: bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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chris@vision.uucp (Chris Davies) writes:
>In article <1991Mar1.144606.14977@javelin.es.com> bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com writes:
>>I just heard about WinGIF...would someone please post it?
>No No No No! (Please).  If someone posts this, you cost many companies (and
>individuals) _r_e_a_l_ _c_a_s_h for receiving the program just so can circumvent your
>company's securitybreachaphobia policy.  Why don't you ask a local site to
>send it to you on a floppy?

a.  It's not circumvention.  Downloading binaries from
"comp.binaries.ibm.pc" & other newsgroups is permitted.  So far,
e-mail & (a)ftp access is not.  Why, I don't know.  It's just not.

b.  About "asking a local site"...I don't know who you have in mind.
I don't know anyone around here with ftp access who can get the
download to a floppy.  I suppose an ad in the paper's possible...
certainly neither as convenient nor direct, tho.

c.  I haven't seen anything that describes the criteria by which
programs are posted in "comp.binaries.ibm.pc" -- I don't know if/when
to expect WinGIF & other interesting programs to be posted there, or
in fact, in any other particular newsgroup.  Typically I wait for them
(I've been waiting a long time for pascal and/or c versions of an SVGA
BGI to be posted); I just happen to have a particular interest in
WinGIF.

d.  Someone's indulgence would be appreciated.
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