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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Keywords: best compression method
Message-ID: <21594@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 17:23:32 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com> <18621@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10712@steinmetz.ge.com> <552@csccat.UUCP> <10758@steinmetz.ge.com> <786@stride.Stride.COM>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <786@stride.Stride.COM> mitch@stride1.UUCP (Thomas P. Mitchell) writes:
>The argument that not evrybody has all compilers is real.  Yet I
>dislike it.  To me compilers are like a key board,  a computer is
>worth little without one.   

Well, I strongly disagree. I don't have source for most of the things
I run on this PC, nor do I want it. I don't have time to tinker with
source code, compiling it, fixing it. I want to get the program and
start using it. Of course, I use programs like PC-NFS, SCHEMA, ORCAD,
PSPICE, and other CAD type tools. You probably don't know what this
stuff is, so you can't appreciate that some people want to do useful
work *with* their computers instead working *on* the computer. 

-- 
Make Japan the 51st state!

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com