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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Binary newsgroups (was: new group for Atari ST software)
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 23:55:38 EST
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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In article <90@umich.UUCP> jtr485@umich.UUCP (Johnathan Tainter) writes:
>In article <17795@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, apteryx@ucbvax.UUCP writes:
>> >1) Binary isn't retargetable...
>> >2) Binary isn't adaptable...
>> >3) Binary isn't fixable...
...
>Have you ever disassembled a binary and recoded it?

Well, yes, actually.  The boot loader for my machine.  And /etc/init.
But just because it's possible to work this way doesn't mean I prefer
operating without sources!

I prefer a sources-only policy.  Binaries are useless to me -- I don't
trust them and won't run them -- but sources in *any* language (well,
maybe excepting Forth) are potentially of interest to me, and I save
them.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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