Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.os.minix split up Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 22:30:31 GMT References: <9104152746@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 31 In article <9104152746@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org> bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman) writes: > peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > > Alternate suggestion: crossposting all sources to alt.sources. > NEVER! (wot never? no never. not ever? well, hardly ever.) > My harddisk is of such meaningless size, and telephone rates vs > 2400bps are so high, that I will never even consider getting > alt.sources! You don't have to. > Besides, this crossposting looks more like offering our sources to > others, than getting those sources split from text. More it's marking those sources as something to archive. > I don't know if > regular alt.sources readers will appreciate the advantage of seeing > Minix software go past. Usually these are packages which do less than > the full-blown things they use on their BSD and System V machines... Some of us have less than BSD and System V machines available. The Minix stuff works just fine on Xenix-286 and PCs. The big-name packages are often far too big. If I didn't see this stuff as being useful beyond minix, I wouldn't have offered to help by running a vote on the split. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"