Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site genrad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!john From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Posting object code to net.sources Message-ID: <294@genrad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 10:06:36 EDT Article-I.D.: genrad.294 Posted: Thu Aug 9 10:06:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 08:17:15 EDT References: <1604@sun.uucp> <466@turtlevax.UUCP> <890@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass. Lines: 21 Nevertheless, net.sources is for SOURCES. If source is posted, it can be used on any system with an appropriate compiler, with perhaps a little diddling. I, for instance, have a TRS80 model I. (no flames please!) With source code posted in C, I can compile an appropriate program for MY system, or I can adapt a program with a good concept to my configuration. Even assembly language can be adapted (but is much harder if the base processor is different). Object code is useless for anyone who does not have the specific machine type. There are many bulletin board systems around that supply compiled versions of public domain programs for micros. Use THEM! They are a much more efficient way to distribute object code programs, because users can dial up systems that only deal in objects for THEIR system type! Posting object code to this forum subjects all of us to pass around large files that we cannot use in any way! Of course some source files are machine specific also (example: a C program to manipulate an MS-DOS directory), but sometimes such things are adaptable to other environments.