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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <4804@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 06:49:39 GMT
References: <4732@dasys1.UUCP> <3128@edm.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Independent Users Guild
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In article <3128@edm.UUCP> rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>From article <4732@dasys1.UUCP>, by tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff):
>>  * So we have a slight dilemma.  But I propose that Rahul give us a
>> technical solution!  He can add a new feature to ZOO that *generates
>> a shell archive* from the input files, instead of a compressed
>
>Yes, yes, yes!! I like!! 
>  Just one thing: ZOO must create an ENTIRELY UNBINARY format in this case..
>Even the 'magic number' must be ascii.

I think if you read my posting carefully, you'll find that that's what
I wanted too.  Filesize, date/time, subdirectory info and checksum should
all be in plain ASCII so they can be transmitted everywhere.





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