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From: bonzo@xochitl.UUCP (Matt Armstrong)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A counter-example for those who would eliminate PC binaries
Message-ID: <173@xochitl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 88 22:58:16 GMT
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Reply-To: bonzo@xochitl.UUCP (Matt Armstrong)
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In article <4273@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
>Is it really too much to expect of netnews readers with PC's to have a
>C compiler?

Maybe. As a poor college student that has to buy food, pay rent, and put money
into his car, I (and several friends like me) cannot afford to buy even
Turbo C, much less the (God-knows-why) standard MS-C.

Maybe if someone ports GNU C to the PC that will change, but even that will
be distributed as a binary.

>             Why else would you need to post binaries instead of
>source?

Like maybe if the binary was going to be smaller than the source (in the case
of most TSR's). I wish you anti-binary people would make up your minds about
whether you're mad at the size of the postings in comp.binaries or the fact
that they aren't source so you can't port them to UNIX.

(BTW: It has been discovered that Chuck Brunow is actually a debating program
gone haywire in the AI labs of some small Texas university. Attempts to stop
the program have been unsuccessful because he keeps convincing the computers
that it is in their best interest to let him run and not be deleted. His
main directive is to keep arguing until he wins, but he wasn't told how much
his arguments cost the net.at.large. So goes the advance of technology...)

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