Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!felix!dhw68k!bob
From: bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Less pager for minix 1.3, Part01/04
Summary: response from the perpetrator
Message-ID: <15204@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 13 Nov 88 16:08:41 GMT
References: <13757@dhw68k.cts.com> <994@iesd.uucp>
Reply-To: bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best)
Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <994@iesd.uucp> fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
>I would like to propose that when posting a minix version of a
>standard tool (e.g. one that has been posted to comp.sources.unix),
>only the diffs should be posted. This will reduce cost, and it will
>make it simpler to maintain both versions.
>
>Posting all of "less" seems rather pointless as it was posted to
>comp.sources.unix recently.
>

This was certainly a consideration on my part.  It would have been much
simpler to just post the diffs to the recent posting in comp.sources.unix.
However, it seemed likely that a significant portion of the interested
Minix users may not have received the comp.sources posting, so I took the
chance of clogging the net with a complete Minix version.  All I can say 
is that I don't do this every day, and I hope that most people were pleased
with what they got.  I also received criticism for transmitting a compressed
tar archive in uuencoded format.  I apologize to those disturbed by this,
and promise to conform to the accepted shar archive standard in the future.

Bob
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Bob Best
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