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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: ar format
Message-ID: <30376@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 18:53:52 GMT
References: <1492@cooper.cooper.EDU> <30122@wlbr.EATON.COM> <17043@usc.edu>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Pete Lyall)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <17043@usc.edu> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>In article <30122@wlbr.EATON.COM> pete@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Pete Lyall) writes:
   [stuff deleted]
>> ... could probably mail you a uuencoded binary.
>
>Why distribute the binary when source is available?  

A couple of reasons:

Carl Kreider (author) wishes to retain some control over the evolution
(more likely guard it against corruption) of 'ar'.

Was there a statement made that the recipient had a C compiler? Unlike
unix, that's not a safe assumption for os9 systems.a

Pete

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