Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!rouaix From: rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Source/Binary Groups Encoding (+ suggestion) Summary: my $0.02 Message-ID: <719@inria.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 09:10:15 GMT References: <8806211453.AA20562@decwrl.dec.com> Organization: Co. Lines: 26 In article <8806211453.AA20562@decwrl.dec.com>, plouff@nac.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes: > Pat said (by mail) that except where directory structure needs to be > preserved, the moderators are now posting only shar files containing > straight source and uuencoded binary files. Excellent! IMHO, excellent is not really appropriate... Let's examine the Master_weave posting: among the files were a picture and some pattern files. ARC was able to compress the pattern files over 90%. This means that an arc file containing all pattern files and uuencoded would have been less 6k large (just try it!), compared to the 100k+ of the 3 uuencode-shar postings. Amazingly, the picture file has also a very high compression ratio. This is NOT a flame. I understand the motivations of having a unique and simple archiving system, BUT sometimes... And now for the suggestion: I would like to find, from times to times, a posting that tells me what the next postings on the moderated grousp are going to be. Maybe every 10 'grouped' postings ? -- *- Francois Rouaix // When the going gets tough, * *- rouaix@inria.inria.fr \X/ the guru goes meditating... * *- SYSOP of Sgt. Flam's Lonely Amigas Club. (33) (1) 39-55-84-59 (Videotext) *