Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!pnet01!sreeb From: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com (Ed Beers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Binaries news group postings Message-ID: <3144@crash.cts.com> Date: 23 Jun 88 03:56:28 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 22 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? UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!sreeb ARPA: crash!pnet01!sreeb@nosc.mil INET: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com