Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc Administrivia: VMS binary problem solved Message-ID: <4213@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 18:22:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4213 Posted: Wed Aug 19 18:22:16 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 08:15:09 EDT References: <3707@ncoast.UUCP> <344@inco.UUCP> <34@sarin.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 24 As quoted from <34@sarin.UUCP> by eric@sarin.UUCP (Eric Beser sys admin): +--------------- | In article <344@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes: | > In article <3707@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: | > > 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. | > | > Refusing to post source in Ada because there aren't very many compilers is | > bogus. There aren't very many Modula-2 compilers around either, but that | > hasn't stopped people from posting Modula-2 code. +--------------- WHOA!!! I *did* send out the Ada code. The author felt (and I concur) that there weren't enough Ada compilers out there to make the source enough, so he sent me the binary as well. (The Ada code was fairly early, it went out in early June, before I started logging sources and adding archive headers.) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> ** Site "cwruecmp" is changing its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwruecmp". ***