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From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Posting Binaries - please read
Message-ID: <994@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 88 16:42:17 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Keywords: program binaries

Since James (x-moderator) has relinquished his role, here goes:

 To all those who intend on posting binaries to comp.sys.atari.st, 
PLEASE include a decent amount of ENGLISH prose (ie. before the uuencoded
stuff starts), describing what the program you're posting is supposed
to do.  PLEASE be as complete and concise as possible (as was done by
James previously), that is specify:
  1)  whether for mono, color, or both
  2)  binaries, sources (specify MWC, OSS Pascal, etc), or both
  3)  what it does  (be as complete as possible here)
  4)  what special hardware/software configuration may be needed

It's silly to post a 50K uuencoded thing which is preceded by 2 lines saying
it's a blah, blah, blah.  A reasonably complete description of what the
program does (in ENGLISH , and not uuencoded) should be included, so the
reader can determine if it's something he/she wants without having to download
, decode, and de-arc it first. Of course the FULL docs should be in the
encoded file. REMEMBER, most people who are reading your posting have no idea
what your program does; hence 2 lines of doc might be enough for you (like
saying it's a f_sel program), but would be insufficient for most of us.
Thanks in advance.
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