Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2059 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:172 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <10758@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 May 88 18:26:34 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com> <18621@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10712@steinmetz.ge.com> <552@csccat.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 Keywords: best compression method In article <552@csccat.UUCP> loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes: > > Let me point out one simple fact: source code is VERY MUCH > SMALLER than binaries. And another: not everybody has all compilers. There have been postings in MSC, Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, MASM, Fortran and COBOL (yecch) so far on this group. That's why we have a binary group. Besides I wouldn't give out source to some things which I can distribute as binary. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me