nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (05/30/88)
| Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS | Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc | In-Reply-To: <11817@ut-sally.UUCP> | References: <1555@bu-tyng.bu.edu<3186@bsu-cs.UUCP> <11803@ut-sally.UUCP> <7978@brl-smoke.ARPA>> | Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity | Cc: | | I can't post to this newsgroup, so if you want you can pass on my comment. | It seems to me that there are two kinds of people who use posted programs. | There are the gurus and hackers who use the source code and don't need | binary. And there are the users, who use the binaries and don't want | the source. The latter would like an arc file containing the manual | and a binary - and nothing else. This is what should be posted in c.p.i.b. | The former would like a shar or arc containing sources, doc texts, | makefile, etc. This should be posted in c.s.i.p. The reason I think | it should be posted here instead of a separate source group is that | the gurus will be reading that group for questions and ideas, and will | want to read code too. Those of us who ask questions can just hit the | n key when we see a subject with "source code" in it. | Thanks for listening, Marty Cohen - ...rutgers!brl!mcohen | -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU