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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: With friends like these....
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Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 17:03:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 17:03:24 1987
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Fred (and everybody else out there),

One of the things I've been thinking about doing is going through all
the disks you distribute (and any other PD disks I can get my hands
on), finding and classifying the most useful programs, and then
rearranging things so that 1) each disk only has programs of one
class, and 2) the most recent version of each program was on that
disk.

For instance, a general utilities disk that has dirutil, popcli,
Dillon's shell and such like on it; a development utilities disk with
cc, make and who knows what else (lex, yacc, bison, maybe others?), a
source examples disk, and an Emacs disk. Other things are obviously
possible.

However, I don't want to get involved in distribution, and this
involves a significant amount of work that I'd rather not do (the
thought of which makes me appreciate what you do all the more!). The
thought of making some money off of it makes it more likely that I'd
do it, but I'd hate to make anyone mad by doing so.

The bottom line question is: if I did this, and charged dollars for
the disks (say, $20 to $30, including printed copies of the
documentation, where available), how many people would be upset. Most
importantly, how many people contributing software to the PD would get
upset?

	Thanx,