[comp.sys.atari.st] Bad

jbww@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber) (02/19/88)

Surely ANY posting of binaries and source is better than none.

During most months of late 1986, early 1987, I captured about 1 disc full 
per month from the net. (Four during Jan 1987!)

I doubt if I have had 2 discs full in the last six months.

I don't believe this is because people are not writing things; I have 
managed to get quite a bit by going (literally) disc in hand, to the right
people, and have heard of quite a few things that were on their  way to 
ST source/binaries, that have never appeared.

Yes, the sources and binary groups are the right place, but I think the 
time has now come to post here, rather than nowhere.

Things that I have heard of, and would like to see :
(But please don't mail them to me without checking: we have limits)

Molecule;   Aim V2 + new data files;   1stLatex V2; 
regular updates of Uniterm (have 2.0a)
StCad;  Icon V2 ;   Levee ;    Colour flipping tools (and demos) 
Uniterm2 docs (Tex or otherwise);   blitter docs

Are there any upgrades to the originals of the following :

Starchart;   DviSt;  

Something that I have just got, and can recommend : 1stw2PS

File transfer is probably easy in the States, not so good this side of the 
Atlantic, person to person mail across the atlantic seems a waste if many
people want it, so : PLEASE LET US HAVE PROGRAMS, NOT JUST TALK !

				j.b. webber    jbww@Ukc.ac.uk

Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (02/23/88)

In article <4460@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, jbww@eagle (J.B.W.Webber) writes:
> Surely ANY posting of binaries and source is better than none.

Yes!

> Yes, the sources and binary groups are the right place, but I think the 
> time has now come to post here, rather than nowhere.

If the bottleneck is in moderation, why not just make comp.binaries.atari.st
unmoderated and post binaries there?  I agree with Richard Lloyd that one
shouldn't need to sift through comp.sys.atari.st just to find programs that one
wants.  Surely posting unmoderated binaries to comp.binaries.atari.st is better
than posting unmoderated binaries to comp.sys.atari.st!

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ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (02/25/88)

In article <23660@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>In article <4460@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, jbww@eagle (J.B.W.Webber) writes:
>> Surely ANY posting of binaries and source is better than none.
>
>Yes!
>
>> Yes, the sources and binary groups are the right place, but I think the 
>> time has now come to post here, rather than nowhere.
>
>If the bottleneck is in moderation, why not just make comp.binaries.atari.st
>unmoderated and post binaries there?  I agree with Richard Lloyd that one
>shouldn't need to sift through comp.sys.atari.st just to find programs that one
>wants.  Surely posting unmoderated binaries to comp.binaries.atari.st is better
>than posting unmoderated binaries to comp.sys.atari.st!
>

I agree.


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