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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dangers of cross-posting (Was: Re: VAX F77 to MIPS F77)
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Date: 9 May 91 19:38:17 GMT
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In article <5275@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>In article <1991May9.015709.14208@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
>}This is not the newsgroup for this; try comp.unix.ultrix or comp.sys.dec
>}or comp.os.vms.
>Of course, comp.lang.fortran IS the correct newsgroup (well, at least ONE
>of them... the others being comp.sys.mips and comp.sys.dec...). I assume that
>the reason someone was told NOT to discuss FORTRAN in "this" newsgroup was
>because because the person who replied to it was in the inappropriate group
>(comp.unix.aix) that the message was also posted too...

Oops.  Forgot to edit out comp.lang.fortran for my followup.  (BTW, I said
comp.unix.ultrix because odds are he's got DECstations.)

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Marc

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