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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: What is what in the GNUniverse?
- Date: 18 Dec 92 17:01:35
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
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- References: <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu>
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- In-reply-to: hanche@ams.sunysb.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 22:26:32 GMT
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- In article <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:
- >The only way I see to get information about a GNU package is to download
- >it, or ask in this forum. Both are a massive waste of bandwidth (and my
- >time) if it turns out I am not interested after all.
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- >So why isn't there a nice, clean README file there, containing a short
- >little description of each package, that I can download and study at my
- >leisure? It would cost so little, and be so useful.
-
- Ok, I've put a file called DESCRIPTIONS on prep, which briefly describe
- each package. I don't know how often this will be updated---presumably
- only when people complain enough about it being out of date. :-)
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