Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!yunexus!ists!mike From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <201@ists> Date: 7 May 88 22:32:37 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science Lines: 17 Summary: positive side effect In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > I don't accept or transmit the binaries newsgroups (on hoptoad), so maybe > I don't get to vote; but I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways > to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet. I know that many in the amiga, mac and PC worlds would scream, but it might force a really postive change in those worlds: good C compilers. Maybe it would help get good ANSI C compilers written and sold. > "Use the Source, Luke...." hysterical ! -- Mike Clarkson mike@ists.UUCP Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science mike@ists.yorku.ca York University, North York, Ontario, uunet!mnetor!yunexus!ists!mike CANADA M3J 1P3 +1 (416) 736-5611