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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROMs
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:15:12 EDT
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> How about if net.sources came out in binary, runnable form (no need to
> run binhex or uudecode, just run).

On *WHICH* *MACHINE*?!?  It is a feature, not a bug, that most of the
contents of net.sources comes in source form rather than binary.  Some
of us think that the violation of this rule by net.sources.mac is a
deplorable botch, albeit perhaps a bit hard to avoid due to the lack of
standardization in Mac development software.

You would probably need a full CD-ROM just to store the binaries for all
the machines that one might be interested in running a given program on.
And you'd never get that many C compilers together in one place to build
them all.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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