ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) (11/18/89)
In article <5843@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes: >I notice that we are in the middle of a many part transmission of >PC-WRITE 3.02 on c.b.i.p. Maybe I'm wrong, and I don't want to spoil >the fun for anybody who is assiduously collecting each part, but I >thought I saw version 3.03 on SIMTEL a few days ago. Quite possible. This is one of the natural features of the binaries. The queue can be even several months long, as I think it has been this autumn, in particular. Comp.binaries.ibm.pc is not the place to look for the latest updates. This is no criticism, but a statement of the obvious. Binaries serve a different purpose than bringing the most uptodate wares to the fore. There are so many programs around that binaries offers a very nice preselection, and binaries bring useful files available to users not having an ftp access. So the choice between the binaries and using ftp (or BBS downloads) is both a matter of priorities and the connections available. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun