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Article #32949Re: Binaries news group postings
From: Ed Beers
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1988 03:56
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1988 03:56
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rthurlow@van-bc.UUCP (Rob Thurlow) writes:
>
> Well, time for one of my infrequent postings again. I just had a look
>at Jwahar Bammi's ZMDM binaries posted to the comp.binaries.st group, and
>I'm afraid it didn't make it here in very good shape. The sequence of
>events for this stuff is as follows:
>
>1) The binaries came into the UUCP node I connect to, and got batched
> to me as if I were just another UUCP site. The articles get put
> in files not much larger than 100K as a rule, with all newsgroups
> mixed randomly and the sequence within a group not guaranteed.
>
This brought to mind a problem I have. Several of the last posting have
required a unix shell to decode. I have only limited access to to a unix
machine which doesn't seem able to unpack these anyway. Is there a program
that allows unpacking these on my ST? Is there a real need to use these
rather than just arcing and uuencoding?
UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!sreeb
ARPA: crash!pnet01!sreeb@nosc.mil
INET: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!pnet01!sreeb From: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com (Ed Beers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Binaries news group postings Message-ID: <3144@crash.cts.com> Date: 23 Jun 88 03:56:28 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 22