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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: BackSpace/NextWorld
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.212116.527@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:21:16 GMT
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- In article <BtLMu8.6CG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- writes:
- =>In article <3757@cvbnetPrime.COM> skochhar@cvbnet.prime.com (Sandeep Kochhar
- =>x4618 5-2) writes:
- =>> According to the latest NextWorld, I should get Backspace (the
- =>> screen saver) from "friends". Since none of my friends has it,
- =>> could someone on the net mail me a copy (tar/uuencoded etc.)?
- =>
- =>I haven't seen that magazine, but it probably explains
- =>why we (and we are your friends, honest!) can't make it
- =>available on sonata/nova. If you've looked, you'll
- =>notice we still have it, but it's not readable. I get asked
- =>why nearly every day. That's so:
- =>
- => we can make it available if that's ever allowed again
- =>
- =>
- => >I< think pulling it from mass distribution was ridiculous
- =>
- =>These are my opinions, of course, and don't reflect the
- =>policies of the Archives or of the University. Most of the
- =>recent policies of the Archives are built on my opinions,
- =>of course, but they aren't necessarily synonymous.
- =>
- =>Allen B (Hoping to get less mail on this for a while)
-
- Backspace is now an example on the 3.0 release CD-Rom
- (NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit). That probably has something to do with why
- NeXT has requested that Backspace is no longer distributed...
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