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Subject: Re: Ban the binaries!
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 10:13:00 EST
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I strongly agree; binaries are BAD because they are
unportable, encourage and require repetition (no context
diffs), the bandwidth is too low, and they are useless to
people without Mac's.  BAN BINHEX!

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