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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <2894@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 16:55:34 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways
>to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet.

Look at the alternative:  To be able to use sources on most
microcomputers, you would probably have to have about five different C
compilers, two or three assemblers, a Pascal compiler or two, and at
least 10 megabytes of hard disk space for the big ones.  Realize that
no current microcomputer operating system on the market costing less
than $300 comes bundled with a decent language translator.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi