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From: moraes@utcsri.UUCP (Mark A. Moraes)
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Subject: Re: Postings binaries?
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Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 10:33:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 10:33:30 1987
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At the risk of starting Yet Another Discussion on Religion, I don't
think it is quite in keeping with the Minix philosophy to post binaries.
Many of us intend to try to port Minix to our better-endowed, less-compatible
machines because its source is available. It would be only fair to give
user programs the same chance. 

I agree with bob's suggestion that binaries can be accessed by anonymous
ftp, or by the earlier suggestions about IBM-PC User Groups. We could create
comp.os.minix.sources (we'll probably have to!) soon. 

Mark Moraes 
University of Toronto.
--The above is UTencoded source code, and has been tested on Homo Sapiens
  machines!