Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!stcns3!dave
From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.n Results (1 of 2)
Message-ID: <1096@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 15 Dec 88 00:17:46 GMT
References: <633@pcrat.UUCP> <43700047@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <12773@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: Alcatel-STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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In article <12773@steinmetz.ge.com>,
    davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| 
|   I didn't make an initial comment, but the results posting is
| egregiously complex. You have to (1) unshar, (2) uudecode, (3)
| uncompress, (4) cut, (5) print pieces, and (6) glue the pieces together.
| Given that 1-3 are parts of BSD UNIX and have to be "found" for other
| systems, cut is part of SysV UNIX and has to be "found" on BSD, and the
| rest of the process is a time consuming process, why do it that way?

Is this guy for real?  (1) unshar, (2) uudecode and (3) uncompress have
all been posted to the sources groups.  If you can read this, you must
have them somewhere.  (4) cut is trivial to write, and for all I know
has also been posted.  (5) was accomplished by wandering to the nearest
dot-matrix printer and putting it into 17-pitch mode.  Blimey, even the
toy printer I have at home can do 17-pitch.  And (6) is unnecessary.

Took me about 5 minutes, if that, on this CCI 6/32S (Sys V) box.

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU),  Alcatel-STC Australia,  dave@stcns3.stc.oz
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    PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it