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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Postings binaries?
Message-ID: <2103@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 22:23:07 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2103
Posted: Thu Feb 19 22:23:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 04:42:01 EST
References: <962@osiris.UUCP> <7619@utzoo.UUCP> <468@gouldsd.UUCP> <1750@hoptoad.uucp> <1316@ho95e.ATT.COM> <13342@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <13342@sun.uucp> by rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman):
+---------------
| I think that the costs of posting binaries outweigh the benefits, especially
| binaries for PCs, clones, or what-have-you.  As minix is ported to more and
| more machines the benefit of any given binary posting becomes less and less.
| 
| If you want to use the net to distribute binaries, post an announcement of
| your newly available binary, and a way to obtain it (anonymous tftp, a
| mail alias to a program that replies with a uuencoded file, etc.).
| DON'T POST the binaries themselves.
+---------------

And, of course, the poor schmucks who don't have C compilers (and probably
don't wash behind the ears, either) and who don't have tftp can go to hell,
right?

I don't have a C compiler.  Kindly don't segregate me or the fur will fly.
Binaries are better than nothing.
-- 
++Brandon (Resident Elf @ ncoast.UUCP)
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