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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNUPLOT PC Posting
Summary: f--k alt.flame
Message-ID: <20677@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 02:55:18 GMT
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Unfortunately, there IS no "comp.source.ibm.pc" group.  Comp.binaries.ibm.pc
has a name which strongly encourages BINARY postings -- I seem to remember
some discussion about MSDOS's unusual status as an environment in which
the binaries were more useful than the sources (at that time).

Much discussion (okay, flamage) has gone by about the twin facts that,
(especially) for source code, straight ASCII postings are preferable to
the net.  For archived binaries, and the ibm.pc stuff in particular,
compressed/archived postings are far more advantageous.

The upshot is that source postings aimed at MSDOS machines are left in a
peculiar vacuum.  c.b.i.p.  really is set up to be ill-suited for
source-only postings, and there isn't a really good place for them to go.
And yet, in these viral days, I am far more interested in source code than
in binaries.