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From: dvlpde@cs.umu.se (Phillip Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stoopid *nix freaks!
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Date: 22 Feb 90 08:22:29 GMT
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In article <90052.182144CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>WAKE UP, PEOPLE!  The whole world is not Unix!  As I've said before, I'm
>running VM here, and I've got four VAXen running VMS.  What works on Unix
>doesn't necessarily work on either of the two.
>
>And when are you people going to get the sticks out of your ***** and switch
>to xx{en,de}code?  Face it.  EBCDIC may not be pretty, but it exists.  And
>it's all over the place.  And you ought to support it.  Currenty, you're
>blocking the way for many users who would like to use the stuff posted here.
>You people who are complaining  [OH GOD!  You might actually have to recompile
>your {en,de}coder!!  OH NO!]  are being a bunch of lazy dweebs.  Get off your
>butts and do something worthwhile.
>
Oh boy!  Sounds like some users are lazy!  There are thousands of VAX/VMS
users out there with just about millions of programs.  This network is actually
reserved for unix-users, so before you jump to conclusions and start
complaining, check things out.

What I don't understand is why YOU yourself don't get the source codes to some
of the programs you wish to convert to VMS and convert them yourself!



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