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From: royt@gatech.CSNET (Roy M Turner)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
Message-ID: <1883@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 19:43:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 19:43:14 1985
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Reply-To: royt@gatech.UUCP (Roy M Turner)
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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In article <371@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>You know, if net.sources.mac contained sources it'd sure be less likely to
>generate this sort of reaction. I think I've seen a total of one peice
>of source code in it. Fine, binhex up the resources fork, but if you're
>going to post to a sources group, post sources.
>

Well, perhaps you could recommend a language for the postings?  Pascal?
MSBasic?  Assembler? C (and are all the C's available for the Mac
compatible??)?  XLISP??  As it is now, the binhex files aren't readable by
humans, but they *are* usable by all MacIntosh owners (unless you have done
something funky to your Mac, of course).  If source is posted, then it is
usable to only a small percentage of MacIntosh owners, ie, those with that
particular language.  If you want the source, you are probably wanting to
change something in it (else you would just compile it anyway), and can ask
the author of it, and if he or she wants you to have access to the source,
he/she can send it to you.

Roy

PS--don't bother with flames, my "n" key is getting worn out! :-)