Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ecsvax!urjlew From: urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Making binary groups obsolete (was Re:Are binary groups necessary?) Message-ID: <3592@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 03:34:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3592 Posted: Sun Jul 26 03:34:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 07:40:34 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> <1888@isis.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 12 Summary: But you can't eliminate binary data! Xref: mnetor news.admin:729 news.groups:1288 [An offering to the gods of 0 and 1] Although I also would like to see the source for all programs being posted to the net, I don't see how even making that mandatory would eliminate the need for binary groups. There are some things that have to be posted as (uuencoded) binaries. For example IFF type files of pictures, music, etc. Also I believe PD C compilers already exist. Small C, PCC, GNU. If these are not truly PD they are close (in some sense) to this. The problem is PD doesn't mean it runs on my machine, and so why is it likely that the one being proposed here would. Therefore I think the challange and the offer are both off the mark.