Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!drilex!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <1083@maynard.BSW.COM> Date: 11 May 88 02:35:34 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp> <2894@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 28 In article <2894@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: <>In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: <>>I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways <>>to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet. Hear, hear! <>Look at the alternative: To be able to use sources on most <>microcomputers, you would probably have to have about five different C <>compilers, two or three assemblers, a Pascal compiler or two, and at <>least 10 megabytes of hard disk space for the big ones. Realize that <>no current microcomputer operating system on the market costing less <>than $300 comes bundled with a decent language translator. <>-- <>Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi Nope. All you need is Turbo-C (about $60 retail) and Turbo Pascal (a bit less, I think). Probably about $100 total. Almost no one writes or posts in assembler these days, but I think there are inexpensive assemblers floating around. I can't understand someone spending thousands of dollars on PC hardware, hundreds of dollars on modems and telephone charges, and then balking at shelling out 60 bucks for an _excellent_ C compiler! -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846