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From: apteryx@ucbvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Binary newsgroups (was: new group for Atari ST software)
Message-ID: <17795@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 17:41:07 EST
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In article <12621@gatech.EDU> you write:
>If and when the network load gets to be too much (probably by the end
>of July at the current rate), the first groups I'll cut here are
>binary-only, or groups that carry mostly binary postings of programs.
There are a few reasons for that:
...
>1) Binary isn't retargetable...
>2) Binary isn't adaptable...
>3) Binary isn't fixable...

Neither is source, if you don't have a compiler for that language.
I bet there are a bunch of Pascal programmers who don't use C, and
vice versa.  I don't have either language (I have Forthmacs), and
quite a lot of my useful software has been binaries from the net.

>4) Binary isn't verifiable.  With all the crazies on the net, you
>expect me to take some binary file posted to the net and install it on
>*my* machine?  Hah!  I'm crazy, but I'm not *that* crazy!
>Gene Spafford

(:-)  Anyone use peripherals containing dynamite?  Or try new programs
while especially valuable non-backed-up files are in the disk drive?
	Brian Peterson