Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!mtuni!aaa From: aaa@mtuni.ATT.COM (Aaron Akman) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Source/binaries on USENET Message-ID: <300@mtuni.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 11:57:44 EST Article-I.D.: mtuni.300 Posted: Wed Dec 2 11:57:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 07:57:13 EST Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 24 Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.37.4 of Wed Mar 4 1987 on mtuni (usg-unix-v) A few questions on submitting/grabbing source/binaries to/from USENET: Could someone explain the various encoding programs (uu[en|de]code, shar, pk[x]arc, and so on) how do they differ, when should you expect to see which used, where to get them. I think I know some answers, but I want to make sure. Has anyone written a program that looks around for postings of source and binaries, and sends mail to the user. It's a pain to interactively readnews looking for source postings. What are the rules for posting source/binaries to the net? Can anyone post? Can one post to any newsgroup, or does the newsgroup have to have the word source (or binaries) in it? I.e. can I depend on only having to browse around in those named groups? Are there any rules for the Subject: line of a posting? I've noticed that multi-part source postings seem to have the Part X of Y stuff in the Subject: line. Is this guaranteed to be there? Why do shar files have X's in the first column of every line? -- Aaron, mtuni!aaa, 201-957-2751