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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
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  3. From: justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
  4. Subject: Re: WhosOnFirst 2.0 and nova.cc.purdue.edu
  5. References: <ByyGpn.9JC@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> 
  6.     <1992Dec16.122510.16003@investor.pgh.pa.us>
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  9. Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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  12. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:52:49 GMT
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  15. In <1992Dec16.122510.16003@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
  16.  
  17. >Another point.  You need the text to speech package to use that
  18. >facility.  I was hoping you didn't because I thought maybe WhosOnFirst
  19. >would give me some idea of whether the package was worth buying or not.
  20. >I guess you can't do that without giving away the store.  Oh, well.
  21.  
  22. I was expecting a binary. That would have been an excellent demo..
  23. I thought it was a little odd to find source code for a demo, and I certainly
  24. wouldn't expect source code. Perhaps source for the app but a binary for the
  25. fully functional product would be beneficial? It would certainly give us
  26. a reasonable sample of what they're offering..
  27.