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Article #95Re: uu and otherwise encoded binaries
From: Jim Budler
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1986 16:28
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1986 16:28
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In article <1293@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>
>I am not a network official. I am just a tyro users, one individual
>but please hearken to my plea.
>
>I plead with you not to post uuencoded binaries to net.sources.
>Please post only human readable sources to that collection. The
>only allowable exception that I can see would be for binary data!
>in a standardized interchange format, e.g. an IFF encoded picture
>file, or machine independant initialization data for a posted
>program. Machine specific encryptions should be confined to the
>newsgroup/list devoted to that hardware.
Interesting....
A year ago the "newsgroup/list devoted to the hardware"
net.micro.mac threw out mac sources and binaries and CREATED
net sources.mac.
Now, along people come..... It's an old story.
--
Jim Budler
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(408) 749-5806
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: uu and otherwise encoded binaries Message-ID: <10938@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 11:28:02 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.10938 Posted: Fri Mar 21 11:28:02 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 14:23:31 EST References: <1293@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Distribution: net Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 26