X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Authentication-Warning: itservs.wilkes.edu: apache set sender to fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu using -f Message-ID: <1099950006.418fe7b679ed7@webmail.wilkes.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:40:06 -0500 From: fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu To: DJGPP List Subject: Editorial: What is our objective? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2 X-Originating-IP: 146.94.1.221 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through Wilkes Webmail: http://webmail.wilkes.edu Wilkes Webmail is using IMP: http://horde.org/imp/