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- From: perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga "C Manual" version 4.0 is now available here
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 06:53:01 GMT
- Organization: The Shadows' Parking lot
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- Bahman Moallem (bamo@sbbs.se) wrote:
- > > >So *you'd* like to wait 7 hours for something of 400-odd K to download????
- > > >That's what Netscape estimated as the download time. If it really is freely
- > > >distributable then surely the best and easiest place to get at it for every
- > > >Amiga user in the world is on the aminet.
- > >
- > > I tried downloading the 'CManual' file and altho' the byte size said 440+ K
- > > I got a 150K .LHX file that I can't decompress...
-
- > You need LZX to decompress CM4.lzx (446140 byte) if you have downloaded it
- > from my WWW site.
-
- > Amiga CManual v4.0 is freely redistributable, that's why it is available
- > in my WWW site.
-
- Just like software at aminet :)
-
- > I have been told that CD distribution of this package is not allowed and that's
- > the reason that I am not going to upload it to Aminet.
-
- Been told by whom? The authors? That's stilly it would benefit the whole
- of the amiga community.
-
- I know that NOBODY reads the instructions but if you had checked up on
- the rules you would know that if you specficy 'NoCD' in the Distribution
- field of the readme (that everybody fills out *slap all*) then the file
- will not be included on the AminetCDs (and said file will be forgotten in
- 10 years :-\
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