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Article #8682Re: SPL Binary
From: Jess Anderson
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1986 02:08
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1986 02:08
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> [...],,,,But The WORST part was I had to get a binary file from the
> WRONG!!!!! place, why can't people put thier files (binary) in net-
> .sources or in whatever category they belong in....I can only assume
> from the posting and the defensiveness on the part of the poster that
> he was an amateur and lacked proper netiquette....Well I suppose I
> have flamed him enough for his lack of whatever he is missing....
> And by the way the file reached more than one sit screwed
> up I downloaded from two separate sites and got the exact byte-
> counts and messages each time.....Amateurs!!!
>
Well, the problems I had were none of Dennis Baer's doing, because
I had correctly saved and concatenated his 5-part post. Uudecoding
it went without a hitch. Once I got my both Kermits working together
in proper fashion (our Unix Kermit is badly braindamaged), I got the
SPLLIB.ARC over to my micro and unarced without any problems. So the
posting was complete and correct.
On the point of *where* it was posted, unless I'm mistaken there is
in fact *no* correct place to post binaries on the net, and the
backbones have lately been complaining quite loudly about such
posting being improper here. To be fair to Baer [:-)], those
complaints came *after* his posting. I believe net.sources is
quite specifically *not* for binaries, hence the name "sources."
File SPLLIB.ARC is freely available from the Bulletin Board of
the Nicolet Instrument Corp., 1200/2400 baud, 608/273-5037, Mike
Brown, SysOp, nights and weekends.
Personally, the breach of etiquette offends me more than the
breach of netiquette--consider the root meaning of the word
"amateur," for example. A little generosity of spirit for those
more *and* less skilled than ourselves, maybe ... :-) :-) :-) ??
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!anderson From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: SPL Binary Message-ID: <454@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Nov-86 21:08:21 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.454 Posted: Sat Nov 1 21:08:21 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Nov-86 23:58:20 EST References: <419@uwmacc.UUCP> <845@gould9.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 39