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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: THE STORE! -- "PD" binaries
Message-ID: <1546@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 20:26:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 20:26:25 1987
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John Gilmore gnu@hoptoad.uucp complained that the STORE mostly
	distributed binary rather than sources.

Andy Sherman  andys@genesis.UUCP  replied that first of all it's free
	and besides it's a spare-time project of the implementors.
>They have very few sources because the software is intended to be
>turnkey software installed under the user agent in an environment
>where not everybody owns the development set.

I've got several comments to add, as yet another user. 
The STORE has had a major impact on the usability of my 7300.  It's
also used up most of the 20 MB hard disk, just with binaries, and most
of the 7300s out there have 20MB disks.  You can call us turkeys for selling
it with the small, terrible hard disk and no way to add multiple disks,
but given those limitations it's tough to put source distributions out.

Much of the source *is* available though the AT&T Toolchest, which
provides a site license for source.  Some non-7300-specific
examples are ksh and Montgomery's emacs.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs