wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) (12/21/88)
Yesterday, in response to a discussion in comp.unix.xenix, I posted my DOSFORMAT shell script which formats MS-DOS floppies under Microport System V/AT. Several people have sent me mail complaining that I should not have posted a binary to a sources newsgroup, or asking that I send them source code for DOSFORMAT because they use a 386 instead of a 286. People, please examine an ENTIRE posting before reacting or responding to it. The reason for these messages seems to be the sentence in the wrapper, "the images should be uudecoded and placed in /usr/local/lib", or something like this. The images referred to are not executable binaries, but DATA files, in fact images of track 0 of a MS-DOS diskette, which are placed on a blank disk by the DOSFORMAT shell script. If you had looked at the entire posting before replying, or even used some deduction (/usr/local/lib is more likely the place for DATA files rather than EXECUTABLES), you would have realized that everything is just fine. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: dcs!wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD