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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST GNU utilities (was Re: Anyone interested in GNUCHESS for ST?)
Message-ID: <461@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 22:40:59 GMT
References: <22014@neabbs.UUCP> <449@forty2.UUCP> <4650@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <4650@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:
>In article <449@forty2.UUCP> poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes:
>>In article <22014@neabbs.UUCP> daanjj@neabbs.UUCP (DAAN JITTA) writes:
>>>Yes, please post the sources (& binaries) of FLEX to the approppriate
>>>ST newsgroups!
[I get mad about this.....]
>FLEX is available for anonymous ftp from ssyx, and on the archive
>server as of about five minutes ago.  If I were to post it, it would
>probably be a binary- only posting, because the sources are very large
>(~300K).  I also have several other GNU utilities here:

I think I should make myself a bit more clear on the subject of source
postings. In general I think posting  source is a  GOOD_THING, but the
indiscriminate posting of  none machine specfic  sources is  NOT. Take
for an example  FLEX: to  get  the  source to compile  and run on a ST
takes  minimal   changes (change the   filenames  to MS-DOS compatible
format,  change entry to Entry for  MWC 2.0 in  one file, and allocate
enough  stack),  the  original  sources  are available   from  various
archives (CIC for Bitnet). A   resonable compromise is  to  distribute
diffs for  people  that don't want to  figure  stuff like this  out by
themselves.

 


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