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Article #2177Re: BackSpace/NextWorld
From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:21
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:21
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In article <BtLMu8.6CG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
writes:
=>In article <3757@cvbnetPrime.COM> skochhar@cvbnet.prime.com (Sandeep Kochhar
=>x4618 5-2) writes:
=>> According to the latest NextWorld, I should get Backspace (the
=>> screen saver) from "friends". Since none of my friends has it,
=>> could someone on the net mail me a copy (tar/uuencoded etc.)?
=>
=>I haven't seen that magazine, but it probably explains
=>why we (and we are your friends, honest!) can't make it
=>available on sonata/nova. If you've looked, you'll
=>notice we still have it, but it's not readable. I get asked
=>why nearly every day. That's so:
=>
=> we can make it available if that's ever allowed again
=>
=>
=> >I< think pulling it from mass distribution was ridiculous
=>
=>These are my opinions, of course, and don't reflect the
=>policies of the Archives or of the University. Most of the
=>recent policies of the Archives are built on my opinions,
=>of course, but they aren't necessarily synonymous.
=>
=>Allen B (Hoping to get less mail on this for a while)
Backspace is now an example on the 3.0 release CD-Rom
(NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit). That probably has something to do with why
NeXT has requested that Backspace is no longer distributed...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!usenet From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: BackSpace/NextWorld Message-ID: <1992Aug26.212116.527@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 26 Aug 92 21:21:16 GMT References: <BtLMu8.6CG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu Organization: University of Houston Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: sierra.egr.uh.edu