Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!falkor!heiby
From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Source ARCs are inappropriate!
Message-ID: <177@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 02:01:10 GMT
References: <7119@dasys1.UUCP> <3271@edsews.EDS.COM>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends
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Mark A. Charette (charette@edsews.EDS.COM) writes:
> I disagree somewhat. For those people accessing this via some connection
> other than a Unix machine, it requires finding out what *.sources it would
> be in, downloading it in ascii form (at their expense), and writing (or
> finding) the unshar script.

What an incredibly interesting concept!  You mean someone might have to
actually *PAY* for what they want, rather than just leaching off some
other site??????  And, further, that someone might actually have to spend
five minutes with a text editor to get something they want?????

Wow!  I never imagined that Tom could be so insensitive, that he would
want someone to actually have to work to get something they wanted, just
so people who don't have the good fortune of having the most amazing
computer ever made on their desks could possibly get a small amount of
benefit from the posting they're paying to transport.  How obnoxious!
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Good grief!  Let's all get out our manuals and figure out how our text
editors work, shall we?  For those who cannot read, the MKS toolkit
provides a dandy version of the Korn Shell and other tools that should
be able to "unshar" quite nicely.  MS-DOS unshar programs have been
posted in the past, as well.  Again, good grief!
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us	Moderator: comp.newprod
"There is a fine line between stupidity and cleverness." (This is Spinal Tap)