einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) (05/31/88)
I don't remember the number of this article. Sorry about that. >OK. Lets talk about it. We could use more source postings, provided the >authors are willing to distribute them. However, several problems arise when >dealing with sources. There are several different languages, and several >compilers for each language, and they are not necessarily compatible with >each other. If possible, someone, possibly a moderator for the group, should >be able to port the sources between, say, MSC and TurboC, or there should be ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ >a decided standard. I think this is the main problem when dealing with >MS-DOS sources. NO OFFENCE GIVEN BUT: A porting ? A standard ? I am not sure if this is a good idea. I own Turbo-C and am quite happy with it, I have no intension of buying MSC. This is the case for quite a lot of usenetters. Other own MSC and are quite happy with that and they may not want to buy another. You got the same problem, although smaller in size, conserning PASCAL. (Turbo-Pascal vs. MS-Pascal and maybe some other pascals). I think that the current "standard" is quite accepteble: If you want to you can send sources, but send those executable files and documents and ARC them or whatever. To quote Alfred E. Neuman: "What! Me worry????" Internet: einari@rhi.hi.is UUCP: ..!mcvax!hafro!rhi!einari