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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: egrep binary - PC
Keywords: egrep binary - PC
Message-ID: <2101@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 26 Feb 89 21:25:21 GMT
References: <7324@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <7324@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> dono@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Don OConnell) writes:
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>Subject line pretty much says it all. Uudecode file. Docs follow.

While I am sure many people appreciate getting binaries, I think even more
would appreciate getting sources.  Furthermore, sources are useful on both
the PC and ST.  I would like to encourage people to post sources and
discourage them from posting binaries.  Sometimes there may be a reason for
not posting sources, but at the moment the only one I can think of is that
the sources are copyrighted, in which case the binaries shouldn't be posted
either.

I take that back.  I just thought of another reason.  I posted ELLE binaries
because I was unable to get ELLE to compiler on MINIX and had to use
PC-IX.  Incidentally, if anyone has managed to compile ELLE on MINIX, please
let me know.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)