ATKINSON@RUBY.VCU.EDU (Stage Struck) (12/19/89)
Enough. I appreciate the work of whoever to package and distribute the TILE packages but I don't have time, desire, or operating system to let me unshell them and look them over. Please, isn't this the sort of thing that OLIS and Jax are for? to archive and store such code for people to access on their own time? I'd like it to stop. I can hardly wait for one of these packages to start bouncing, then traffic can really get heavy. Again, I can appreciate the work involved to distribute this, but the amount of stuff is killing my disk quotas. Luther Atkinson@vcuvax.bitnet Atkinson@ruby.vcu.edu
dunn@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (John Dunn) (12/19/89)
I *like* it when people take the time to upload something timely and of interest. If it happens to be something I am not interested in, I know where the "N" key is. I also appreicate it when people take the extra time with thier own projects to make them accessable to others. It does take going that extra n miles, and usually out of higher motives than personal profit. This kind of thing should be encouraged, not dismissed. -John Dunn
thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) (12/20/89)
In article <5762@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> dunn@uhccux.UUCP (John Dunn) writes: >I *like* it when people take the time to upload something timely >and of interest. If it happens to be something I am not interested >in, I know where the "N" key is. I think you missed the point of the complainer's message. The same source code was posted to comp.sources.misc, where it belongs. This group is not the place for large source code postings -- that is what the sources groups are for. Small postings containing programs are acceptable in most "comp" oriented groups, but 7-part source postings are not for comp.lang.forth. Volunatarily restricting big source postings to the sources groups allows those with tight disk space to get only the messages they want. The posting in question should have been replaced with an announcement of TILE's availability in comp.sources.misc and via uucp/ftp (if available). -- Rich Rich Thomson thomson@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!thomson More Columbians are killed by American cigarettes than Americans by Columbian cocaine
lantis@sundance.CS.ORST.EDU (David Lantis) (12/21/89)
I am glad to see something like TILE. I have a system that I don't have time to learn the inner workings of, and I want a forth. TILE is an option for those in my situation. Keep up the research.
7811105@TWNCTU01.BITNET (12/23/89)
Sorry, I didn't mean to do so. But my account on VAX only have 1000 blocks allowed, I cannot compile TILE FORTH. If there's anyone who have do that, can he mail a runnable program to me? I am running on VAX 8800 , VMS 5.0. Joanna............