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From: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com (Ed Beers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Binaries news group postings
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Date: 23 Jun 88 03:56:28 GMT
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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?

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