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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Stop Wasting Bandwidth On Binaries
Message-ID: <1034@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 9 Jan 90 12:24:39 GMT
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I would vote for creating separate news groups for OS/2 sources and
binaries. Of course many of the programs posted here in the last time
were ports of well-known Unix programs (although they are not STANDARD
unix programs, they are PD, or did you ever hear of a Unix coming with
MicroEMACS or GNU awk included ?). But some ports were not as easy as
someone could expect (MicroEMACS :-) and many OS/2 users may not have
access even to the Unix sources.

How could creation of these new newsgroups be initiated ? If someone
could do it (perhaps somone sitting in Amerika and not in old Europe)
I think he should do so.

Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de