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Date:	Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:40:06 -0500
From:	fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu
To:	DJGPP List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Editorial: What is our objective?
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At a recent conferemce I heard a distinguished speaker say:
"If it is not published, in is not science, it is hobbyism."
This. of course. was an unintended slur on hobbyism.  But
give him credit for trying.  Open exchange is the key.

Recently, the principal of a gnu group, dismissed the errors
of a gnu package because it was not gnu code.  This code was
part of the changes designed to make it possible to work in
the DJGPP environment.

I have tried the tar 1.1.2 package.  As supplied, the binary
failed four of the tests provided.  The most noticable on
Windows XP was the failure to provide correct time stamps
for extracted files..  When recompiled it failed only the
last test, only one!  Not good enough!  Looking at gnu tar
1.1.4 I realized there was not one trace of Eli's extensive
work on the earlier version.

This led me to test again my early statement that zip -0
followed by gzip would make zip balls as small as tar balls.

A crash report for the last beta of zip published:-  (Never
fear, the last advertized version is solid.) revieled that
the Info-ZIP group was now meeting in "cabal".  At some, yet
to be announced date, ZIP 2.3 would be announced.  Unfortunately
there were no testers of DJGPP, or for that matter, of main
frames on the in-group.

The group working on BIG NUMBER MATHMATICS *KNOW* that this is
the reason that computers exist and that the little people
who provide us with a compiler are a ... what do I say..
they are less than helpfull with their efforts to comply
with standards no one asked me about in the first place.

Whose security is being protected?

Regards,
Frank


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