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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: net.sources.amiga - it's time!
Message-ID: <425@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 10:53:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 10 10:53:20 1985
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> Isn't it time to create a net.sources.amiga and also decide on

Let's not & say we did. How about posting AMIGA sources to net.sources
until such time as people start complaining about the quantity. Also,
how about trying to make your programs relatively hardware independant.
It should be possible to package stuff so that with appropriate #ifdefs
in the implementation section the same code can be run on the Mac, the 520,
and the AMIGA. In fact a lot of it should even be usable on UNIX and IBMs.
If I can do it, why can't you?

> a standard for posting binary, ala BINHEX or what ever is best?

Let's not post binary, or at least discourage it. If you really need to
binary something up, please use "uuencode/uudecode". This format is generally
available and allows non-amici (plural of amicus) to see if they can make use
of the data (frex if you post an image).

> I vote yea... please vote, too.  This and all responses should
> be cross posted here and to net.news.group.  If response is
> great enough, the group will be created.

I vote no, at least until the quantity is great enough that another group is
actually needed. That point has not yet been reached.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
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