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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Binary newsgroups (was: new group for Atari ST software)
Message-ID: <830@water.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 17:31:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 17:31:44 1987
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In article <2425@dalcs.UUCP>, silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert) writes:
> In article <12621@gatech.EDU>, spaf@gatech.UUCP writes:
> > With source, at least, you can make changes and recompile ...
> > If you're going to start a group, I'd want source only. 
> 
>                            ...  the basic question is whether source
> code is machine-specific or language-specific.  If the latter, then Gene
> has a point, and we should set up language source groups.  If the
> former, then the rest of us are on the right track.  

I agree with Bill on this one.  I appreciate receiving his Modula-2
binaries.  I do not have a Modula-2 compiler, and probably will not be
getting one in the near future.

I would also like to be able to exchange APL workspaces, which are in
fact source code for an interpreter, but which to a non-APLer look like
a "binary" because they have a lot of 8 bit characters in there.  Even
if I use the WorkSpace Interchange Standard (WSIS), which is a machine
independent representation, it looks like a "binary" for the same
reason.

-- 
 L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. 
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