Re: Byte Chess 0.5 - update for 'portable' version
- From: "I Forget" <No@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:54:28 -0500
Let's see if they've fixed the newsgroup postings, and this actually gets
posted today....
"Jochen" <jotel99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> thk u! but ...
> why here?
Because the people here can test it with compilers that I don't have.
When I first did it, I used DJGPP's version of GNU Pascal.
I required just a few minor changes to get it to compile.
Unfortunately, both older versions and newer versions of GPC wont compile
it.
And I had no way to even notice that.
Also, other compilers are complaining about things that GPC let's slide.
Since I don't have all those compilers, this is the best way to make it
available to everyone who would want to test it.
If you don't want the program, then don't download it. Amazingly simple.
Nobody is forcing you to download messages you don't want. This isn't like
the old days of FIDOnet etc., where the message readers automatically
downloaded every message.
With most newsgroup readers today, you have a choice of what messages you
want to download. And you can always see the size of a message before you
download it.
If this was the old FIDOnet days, I wouldn't have posted it. Everybody
downloaded every message. We used 2400, 14k then eventually 28k and 33k
modems. (Heck, a few boards were still allowing 300 and 1200 modems to
connect!)
But today, with broadband, mediumband, and 56k modems...
Even if you are on dial-up (with a per minute charge), the modem will still
perform compression. For pure text like that, probably 3:1 compression.
Just a little worse than what a full zip would do.
So you'd only really be transfering around 45k for the full program and 2k
for the update diff.
For modern modem, that's only 10 seconds and <1 second of real transfer
time....
Not a substantial amount.
Really.... is 1 second of download time really that important to you???!
Is 10 seconds? Heck, it takes longer than that to blow my nose!
These aren't the old days of people using 2400 baud modems. Times have
changed.
> are u sure u cannot get some webspace and drop a link here?
The problem with posting programs on web sites is that they can disappear.
Leaving no trace they were ever available.
In the past few months, I've tried hunting for several old classic programs.
With no success on the web. (For example, some of the early versions of GNU
Chess are apparently lost forever.)
But, I did manage to find some of them in the newsgroup archives on google.
Where somebody had posted the source.
So posting source of a classic 27 year old program that had never previously
been distributed is a little bit of insurance it's not going to disapear
quite so easily.
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