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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: new newsgroups
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Date: 18 May 88 13:47:25 GMT
Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Organization: Emory University Cardiac Data Bank
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I feel like a good way of distributing software to the comp.sys.cbm crowd
would be to vote on "standard" language development tools and then distribute
sources. If the group can pick a C (power C) and an assembler to use, then
the posting of binaries would be unnecessary.

The sizes of the sources are generally smaller than binaries (in C, anyway)
and the copyright problems are greatly reduced.

I feel like the formation of a .source group should not be judged by the
current traffic on the net. I think the group has remained small because
of the lack of a standardized method for sharing software.

mat


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