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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Making binary groups obsolete (was Re:Are binary groups necessary?)
Message-ID: <326@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 04:55:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: brandx.326
Posted: Mon Aug 17 04:55:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 01:48:54 EDT
References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> <638@senilix.liu.se>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: binaries vs. sources, shareware
Xref: utgpu news.groups:1270 news.admin:767
Summary: perfect programs don't exist in the twentieth century.  if you can't handle sources, perhaps you were born too early.
To: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu

In article <638@senilix.liu.se>, matoh@senilix.liu.se (Mats Ohrman) writes:
>... [deletion of reasons that justify a Pyramid binaries group equally well]
> I'm not interested in hacking around in the sources. I want a finished and 
> working program!

There are no such things.  However, some programs work better than
others - but this is very difficult to verify without source.

> }} hacking soemthing from Aztec C to Lightspeed simply because some "higher
> }} authority" has decided that binaries are not acceptible to the network.
> }
> }Sigh, looks like you have mistaken me for the backbone or something.
> 
> Wasn't it a backbone decision you wanted?

The backbone decision requested was the creation of groups to open up
the development of public domain compilers.

> ...
> I don't see what reason there is in flaming another's ".signature"...
>                                                   _
>                                             /Mats Ohrman
>                                              matoh@majestix.liu.se
> **********************************************************************
> ** The Computer is your friend. The Computer wants you to be happy. **
> **   If you are not happy, you may be used as reactor shielding.    **
> **********************************************************************

From Berkeley 4.3 Manuals: USD:10-8, section 5.8 [see also newuser postings]:
    ``Do not include pictures, graphics, or clever quotations that make
      the signature longer; this is not the appropriate place for
      them, and many sites resent paying the phone bills for such signatures.''

[There is a note at the end of that article indicating that it was
inspired by the same person whose signature I was ``flaming.'']

------ BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)