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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Munged jove files
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Date: 2 May 88 13:37:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    May  2 08:37:00 1988


All the Jove files got here alright. I have a big pet peeve about the
documentation though: It is virtually impossible to read. When someone
posts a big object, PLEASE include complete documentation in PLAIN,
ordinary ASCII text! Please! Please! Please! Include it in some other
format if you wish, but be nice to people out there in Netland, who
often don't have the oddball formatter you used. The net is a very
varied place, people have all sorts of different systems. This is
especially true for things, like Jove, that are explicitly supposed to
run on lots of different machines. If you post something like a
"Berkeley 4.3 BSD Kernal mode debugger" you might assume that the
potential user has all the utilities that come free with the  operating
system, but in the general case PLEASE assume nothing!