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From: cs64wes@sdcc14.UUCP (OUSLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Are BINARIES really a waste of disk space?
Message-ID: <342@sdcc14.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 23:42:48 GMT
References: <745@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <1028@edge.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs64wes@sdcc14.UUCP (Chance, Jonathon)
Organization: University of California, San Diego, Astrophysics
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In article <1028@edge.UUCP> doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>[As the #1 poster of lengthy game reviews, I obviously have a small bone
>to pick...]
>
>> The controversy over binary files wasting disk space would be moot if
>> people would STOP posting lengthy game reviews, STOP posting redundant
>> articles, and STOP using News as a private mail system.
>
>Gee, I didn't know there WAS a controversy...   

  In fact there is.  I suggested that SMALL programs wouldn't kill
anyone to be posted, and you should have SEEN the flames I caught!
Many of these were through e-mail, which may explain your lack of
knowledge about this.


>
>At least we aren't cursed with the "my computer is better than your
>computer" flame wars :-)

  I'm not so sure of that.  C-64 users have taken a bit of a beating
from others who don't like these "8-bit machines".  Trust me, it's
as childish here as they get.  Maybe you just don't receive all the
messages we do???


                                     -Jonathon Chance

     {I have given you the power!}     {Who is number one?   }
     {Do you understand?         }     {You are number six.  }
     {I have given you the power }     {I am NOT a number !  }
     {of the Q!   Use it.        }     {I am a FREE MAN!     }

	   {I have seen attack ships burning off the shores}
	   {                 of Orion...                   }