Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.news,net.micro.mac,net.news.group Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac (mod.sources...) Message-ID: <6182@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:59:51 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.6182 Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:59:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:00:45 EST References: <10674@ucbvax.ARPA> <536@felix.UUCP> <2920@sun.uucp> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.news:3537 net.micro.mac:3378 net.news.group:3806 In article <434@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >I don't buy this. The IBM-PC is certainly no more of a computer (less of a >micro) than the Mac, and there have been plenty of excellent sources in >Turbo Pascal, 'C', and even Basic posted for it. There have also been a >few binaries (ced.com.uu springs to mind), but at least the binaries have >been uuencoded and uuencode source for UNIX has been posted to net.sources. >If the IBM-PC can do it, why *NOT* the Mac? I don't understand this. What is the importance of uuencode in the discussion. Binhex is used for the mac, and an excellent decoder of binhex was posted to the net. (xbin). In source. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 Bogus newsgroup: net.news: Move to end of .newsrc[yn^L]? Don't be dictators, use thought.