thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (07/22/83)
I have submitted the manual page for ansitar to net.sources. I also have added FILES-11 "counted record" decoding/encoding (for reading tapes from RSX/VMS sites). I would be willing to submit my version of ansitar.c, but I will wait to see whether another version gets submitted first. =Spencer
bernie@watarts.UUCP (07/25/83)
Simple; they didn't test the theory. Drinking various substances mixed with water may lead you to *suspect* that water is an intoxicant. (In science, we call this "forming a theory"). The next step in the scientific method is to *test* that theory; in the case of the intoxicant example, you would drink a glass of water and examine the effects. You would then come to the conclusion that your theory was wrong, and form a new theory (for example, that the various things you'd been mixing with the water were intoxicants). You would then test this new theory, and find it (pardon the pun!) held water. Thus the scientific method *does* work, when intelligent people use it properly. --Bernie Roehl ...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie