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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <11803@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 15:26:00 GMT
References: <1555@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> 
> Better still, we need comp.sources.msdos.  Why doesn't somebody propose
> it?  The net population likes sources, so it should have no trouble
> getting approved, and it might even encourage more source postings.
> -- 

I second the motion.  Before the Great Net Reorganization we had a group
for MS-DOS sources which was extremely popular -- some chaff, but a fair
amount of wheat, too.  Now MS-DOS sources are posted to a lot of different
newsgroups, many that are inappropriate, or are not posted at all.

As an example, I have collected or written a large number of Unix-like
commands that work under MS-DOS and provide a Unix-like environment on
a PC, since I go back and forth between it and 4.3BSD on a Vax.  (The
collection and its design are described in a chapter in the forthcoming
book "The MS-DOS Papers," published by the Waite Group.)  I intend to
place all of the sources in the public domain, under the name "PCnix" --
not to be confused with "Picnix" which is shareware and for which source
code is not provided.

I guess I'll have to round up a few BBSs willing to "carry" it -- but I'd
also like to make it available on the net, since some of the collection
came to me that way.  I'd like to return the favor.

If the newsgroup Rahul suggests is actually formed, I'll post PCnix to it.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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