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Article #1148Don't port "LU" to the ST!
From: John McNamee
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1985 11:01
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1985 11:01
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Thinking of writing an "LU" (CP/M Library Utility) type program for the ST? DON'T! A friend of mine is almost finished with one that includes squeeze and unsqueeze, and understands GEMDOS pathnames and file lengths. He hopes that if he can come out with his program first, it can become the defacto standard in the ST world. It would be a shame if LU were able to force its way onto the ST, since it really lacks a lot of important features. PACK68 (the name of the new program) will be placed in the public domain with all source code available (its written in C). Lets do something right for a change and not let crufty old CP/M software get moved to new environments. Please don't port LU! -- John P. McNamee decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm jpm@BNL44.ARPA
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl44.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm From: jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Don't port "LU" to the ST! Message-ID: <1014@bnl44.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 07:01:34 EDT Article-I.D.: bnl44.1014 Posted: Tue Oct 1 07:01:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 07:45:08 EDT Distribution: net Lines: 12