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From: john@ahuriri.gen.nz (John McCombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Tetris port for Coherent
References: <17787153@mailgsm.mendelson.com>
Message-ID: <910604710@ahuriri.gen.nz>
Organization: Organisation? Where?
Date: Tue,  4 Jun 91 22:18:25 +1200
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root@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:

> john@ahuriri.gen.nz (John McCombs) writes:
> 
> Maybe percents are bigger down under? :-)  My lousy arithmetic says that
> 50k is 40% of 200k. :-)

40%?  They told me everything was bigger in the USA :)  How about 25%?

> By my arithmetic .04% is 5 bytes, 1 bit. If you can compress stuff down that
> far, by all means post it. :-) 

I was ambiguous - 200k out of 450MB total traffic.  Anyway didn't you know
bits pack better in the Southern Hemisphere.

Reading one of your other posts on this subject, I take your point about 
the costs of some peoples transport mechanism.

The alternatives are less than ideal.  Piggy is inaccessible, mwcbbs is
expensive, bitftp@pucc.bitnet only works if you are on bitnet/EARN, and 
posting in alt.sources etc means I have to trawl a whole lot of stuff I'm not
interested in.  Your suggestion about using disks/snail is ok, but it was
months ago that I asked mwc about getting some stuff on disk, and the
COHware disks just arrived this morning.

I hesitate to suggest a separate coherent sources group so soon after this 
was last discussed, but it does seem like a better solution than some of the
above.  There seem to be two distinct groups of people on this question, and
this would keep everone happy.

cheers, John

BTW tetris make'd ok on my machine.
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