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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.micro.mac,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac (mod.sources...)
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 09:19:27 EST
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> I don't see why you should have any more problems decoding a BinHex file on
> your Unix machine than you would have decoding a uuencode file.  In case you
> missed the point of the original message, xbin is a program *that runs under
> Unix* and that can decode BinHex files into their separate binary forks.

Except that I never bothered to get xbin because I never expected to want to
use it. Oh, forget it. Like I said before, it's a *minor point*. The major
point follows:

> > The important point is
> > that if you can post IBM-PC sources to the net, why can't you do the same for
> > Macintosh sources?
> 
> Some Macintosh sources have been posted.  But the enormous number of different
> Macintosh development systems coupled with the fact that there's no "official"
> native development system for anything other than assembly language means that

You mean there is an official native development system for the IBM-PC for
anything other than assembly language? I've seen programs for the PC in
various flavors of 'C', Turbo pascal, Xlisp, Forth, and even Basic. I have
seen one uuencoded program that was only available in that form (ced), and one
uuencoded program for which the source was avalable (shell). I have converted
IBM-PC programs in several flavors of 'C' to run under UNIX. The only sources
I've seen on the mac were both in 'C': one was a skeleton for doing various
window stuff and the other was a window manager to let the Mac act like a Blit.

Do Macintosh people ever write programs that do anything, or do they just play
with their windows all day?
-- 
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