comp.sources.3b1
DoN Nichols
dnichols at ceilidh.beartrack.com
Fri Feb 22 14:23:23 AEST 1991
In article <11381 at pbhya.PacBell.COM> jacalca at PacBell.COM (JA "Cal" Calcaterra) writes:
>In article <326 at sialis.mn.org> rjg at sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>An open general request: When submitting source to
>>comp.sources.3b1, please consider the possibility that someone
>>won't have any idea as to what it is. Please include a brief
>>description at the top of part 1 of n that describes what the
>>code that follows, actually does.
[ ... ]
>
>I see that and raise it two :-)
>
[ ... ]
>My raise to the "open general request(s)" is:
>
> - to include clues to the code, items, things other than come with a stock
> 3b1, that posted source depends on.
Add to that a note in the notes with the sources archives on osu-cis
which suggest other packages which should be snarfed at the same time to
complete a project.
e.g. a note in the discription of the package for making a bootable
floppy-based system which recognizes the floppy-tape drive.
Once you get it, you discover that you should have gotten
the "kern" package, (which I already had), and the
"config.sh.Z", which I did not have. Since I have to
do my ftp access during work hours, and my 3b1/7300 work
during home hours, this adds an extra day (if things go
well) to the time needed to assemble such a package into a
working form.
Also, perhaps a note at the beginning indicating that Doug
Gwyn's 'ndir' package is useful, the 'alloca.s' should be
present if you're going to be building things from GNU,
etc. I've learned a lot of this in porting code to my old
v7 machine (still 68000), and the unix-pc is a LOT easier to
port code to, but still...
Thanks
DoN.
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