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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source code for shar for pc's
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Date: 26 May 88 14:19:35 GMT
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Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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In article <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Better still, we need comp.sources.msdos.  Why doesn't somebody propose
>it?  The net population likes sources, so it should have no trouble
>getting approved, and it might even encourage more source postings.

The difference between comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.msdos is that
you can *count* on a Unix system to have a C compiler, whereas you can't
count on *any* MS-DOS system to have any sort of compiler.

Of course, given the price of Turbo C, we could standardize on it.  ;-)
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