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Article #1426Re: What is what in the GNUniverse?
From: Noah Friedman
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:01
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:01
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In article <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: >The only way I see to get information about a GNU package is to download >it, or ask in this forum. Both are a massive waste of bandwidth (and my >time) if it turns out I am not interested after all. >So why isn't there a nice, clean README file there, containing a short >little description of each package, that I can download and study at my >leisure? It would cost so little, and be so useful. Ok, I've put a file called DESCRIPTIONS on prep, which briefly describe each package. I don't know how often this will be updated---presumably only when people complain enough about it being out of date. :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!friedman From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: What is what in the GNUniverse? Date: 18 Dec 92 17:01:35 Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.92Dec18170135@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: hanche@ams.sunysb.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 22:26:32 GMT