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From: atoy@watnot.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Tough questions
Message-ID: <11376@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 12:31:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 14 12:31:52 1985
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Summary: 

In article <166@oberon.UUCP> spencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer) writes:
>I don't suppose that there is anyone out there who has ever gotten out
>of the Mandril demo... or is it the reverse, am I the only one that has
>never been able to exit it.

There is a close gadget on the display, but you can't see it.  It's only
about one or a couple of pixels in the uppper left corner of the screen.

>I have been reading for several weeks about people that want the only
>post sources to the net for this will allow the programmers of the lot
>to modify them and develop really spectacular unilities, while the other
>half wants to be able to run the program and not have to get every possible
>compiler on the market to be able to compile *all* the possible sources
>that come in.

Yes for SOURCES.  Keep it that way.  Have you ever tried understanding or
modifying object code?  Although I feel that there should be some way for
those compiler-less Amiga users out there to get the nifty programs
developed by those with compilers.  What's the solution?

>Will, it would seem to me that you could (or I could) write
>a really short utility that creates a basic program from the compiled code.
>...etc.

You will still not have the source to fiddle around with.  All you end up
with is an AbasiC loader for the machine code.  Besides, if you did send
the binary, what's wrong with using something standard like uuencode/decode?

Andy Toy                               UUCP: ...!watmath!watnot!atoy
University of Waterloo               BITNET: atoy@watdcsu.NetNorth
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