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From: cinglis@cs.strath.ac.uk (Craig B Inglis CS88)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C
Message-ID: <1476@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jan 90 15:11:49 GMT
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Reply-To: cinglis@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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First of all let me say thank you to all who replied to my last article,
except the person who said "You are a pratt!" he can go and jump!

Well I suppose people are actually wondering what I received.
Well here goes, I received about 16 replies. Most of them were of course 
flames "You are a criminal... Hope the police catch you... blah blah...",
some were a little more contructive "Have you considered the fact that
LC would be useless without the manuals ... blah... you are very silly...",
but beleive it or not I did receive one or two "Hey, Ive got LC5.02, of
course you can have a copy... but what have you got to swap...".


Mabye I should clear up a few points, now. Firstly if I wanted a copy of LC
I could get it (with manuals) for about #15 at the a local market in Glasgow,
this is no secret. Now this may sound like a 'please dont flame me anymore,
before I get into trouble' article, but it isnt, if you have something to
say, especially if it isnt the usual "I appauled...  you should be ashamed...",
then post me it.

Some people have said that they will look out for Lattice C object code that
has been produced by me etc... but of course this is silly, as the last article
stated if I had a pirate copy of LC & used it for what I wanted (simple
coursework) the object code would be seen by noone other than me & the source
would be standard C.  This of course is the reason (apart from the moral,
legal side) that a PD C would not only be as useful to me as any commercial
C but also I would be able to give people copies of any interesting software
I produced.

"Why then ask explicitely for one then?" was the question asked by my Systems
Manager. A good question. But the truth be told & this is the truth. I was
going to make the "send me LC" a joke and put lots of 8') in around it to
make it obvious, but I thought to myself, "Are there actually people out
there that would send me C?". This was a good choice as you cannot poll
the net saying "Please mail me if you are daft enough to risk a #2000 fine
for no financial gain yourself", I would have received nothing, apart from
mabye one of two "You are a pratts...".

C was a good choice as, had I asked for a game, I would have most certainly
had further action taken against me.

Anyway thanks to everyone (nearly), especially the people who sent me all
that information on PDC & Zc. I wont mention your names as some net loonies
might flame you for mailing me.

Craig Inglis.

"Yo ho ho & a bottle of rum!" "batton the hatches" "hoist the mainsail"