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Re: WhosOnFirst 2.0 and nova.cc.purdue.edu

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From: justin sullivan
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:52
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In <1992Dec16.122510.16003@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:

>Another point.  You need the text to speech package to use that
>facility.  I was hoping you didn't because I thought maybe WhosOnFirst
>would give me some idea of whether the package was worth buying or not.
>I guess you can't do that without giving away the store.  Oh, well.

I was expecting a binary. That would have been an excellent demo..
I thought it was a little odd to find source code for a demo, and I certainly
wouldn't expect source code. Perhaps source for the app but a binary for the
fully functional product would be beneficial? It would certainly give us
a reasonable sample of what they're offering..
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