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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
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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. 

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me