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Subject: Re: minix program postings to the net
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 22:05:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 22:05:09 1987
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In article <468@gouldsd.UUCP>, mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
> More to the point, suppose I make a version of uuclone...
>                        ...but do not want to give out sources ?

Then don't post it to the net.  Send it to some IBM PC user group or
package it up and sell it.  The net is for portable software, and
binaries are not portable.

>      Swapping huge sources is best done with floppy-disk mailers
> anyway. 

Swapping huge sources is best done with 9-track magtapes, you mean.
*Everybody* can read magtapes :-), while only bozos with IBM PC's can read
floppies.  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled
with magtapes."

It may take a bit more pounding, but it has to sink into everyone's heads
that MINIX IS NOT RESTRICTED TO IBM PC'S!!!  Binaries and floppies are
not useful to all the Minix users.  Sources posted to the net are.  They're
even useful to non-Minix users who have C compilers.

Also note that the sources to Minix programs can't be too huge, since it's
currently limited to a 64K+64K address space.

> shar wherever possible, tar for binaries, and no "arc" "pack" "squeeze"
> "much" or "gulp" formats. 

Shar forever -- and a simple one that doesn't indent rename
inspect detect see-lect and reject.  "Just the facts, Ma'am."
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu
Love your country but never trust its government.
		     -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania
(terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.)