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From: parsons@utcsri.UUCP (Darrell J. Parsons)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: terminal emulator with 132 columns
Message-ID: <3205@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 23:21:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.3205
Posted: Fri Aug  1 23:21:31 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Aug-86 09:40:39 EDT
References: <8607251323.AA05208@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <402@atari.UUcp>
Reply-To: parsons@utcsri.UUCP (Darrell J. Parsons)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <402@atari.UUcp> neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) writes:
>In article <8607251323.AA05208@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes:
>
>> Neil, its awfully frustrating reading about all the PD programs you have
>> on the Atari BBS and having no possibility at getting them (hint, hint).
>
>So what would you like me to do about it?  That's why we have the BBS -- to
>distribute the software.  What alternatives are there?  We'd like to go with
>a national service (i.e. CompuServe, GENIE) but most of the software is there
>already so obvoiusly you can't afford that.  And we don't want to get into
>the business of duplicating disks of the stuff (and having to support it).
What about the net? Weren't UUDECODE/SHAR/COMPRESS etc. all written with that
VERY purpose in mind.

Alec Saunders. (Not Darrell Parsons)