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From: pes@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Info-Atari16 Digest V86 #37	(LARN, Part 1 of 6)
Message-ID: <652@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 07:12:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 07:12:54 1986
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Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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Yes, yes, a thousand times...  A quick 'introductory' posting, coming before
large 'coded' postings, to tell what they contain would be nice.  It's
particularly desireable now ARC is being used, as you can't scan through an
ARC file to see whether it looks like it might be interesting.

True with LARN in particular, or at least most recently.  Does it contain

(a) source of some unspecified 'standard' form of LARN (in which case I'm
not really interested, as I've now got that; or

(b) source of LARN adapted for the ST (in which case I'm probably interested,
because I think the version I've got hasn't been); or

(c) coded executable which will run on the ST (in which case I'm *really*
interested, because it would save me a lot of messing about); or

(d) coded exec for some other machine (U**x or V*X, say, in which case I
really couldn't care less).

The only way for me to find out is to port it to my ST  so I can DECODE and
unARC it -- and the only way I've got to do that involves painful xfer over
a noisy 1200 baud dialin line.  Or, yet another fortune for British Telecom.

Really, a little 'pre-release' blurb would be much appreciated.

Along similar lines, it would be nice, where known, if people posting source
files could indicate which compiler/assembler (s) it is written for, so that
I could make an intelligent guess as to how much work is required to convert
to for my MetaComCo languages -- and, because it would give a clue as to
which ones are actually most popular, so that I could consider whether I
ought to buy yet another company's offering to make porting things easier.