Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: comp.sources.misc Administrivia: VMS binary problem solved Message-ID: <3707@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:57:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.3707 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:57:41 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 20:24:46 EDT Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 16 Well, the problem is solved. One of the suggestions I received was to have thr original author send the program to DECUS; since they have a wider VMS distribution than Usenet does, that solved it. Most commonly asked question: "Why didn't he post sources?" He did. Unfortunately, they were in Ada; not many Ada compilers out there for VMS. So he posted a binary of the program for those lacking Ada compilers. This is nothing different from what goes on in comp.binaries.ibm.pc; I suspect that the fact that most UN*Xes come with C compilers is the only reason we can get away with posting source. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!cwruecmp!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <>