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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
Message-ID: <8805130331.AA29993@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 May 88 03:31:47 GMT
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>I second Chuck's point: sources should be SOURCES, binaries should be
>BINARIES. Both should be SHARed.  Binaries should be UUENCODED and not
>ARCed or ZOOed, at least in general since EVERYBODY has uuencode/uudecode
>(on both UNIX and Amiga) while the same is not true fo the other two programs.

	I agree with one exception.  When the distribution requires a 
	directory structure to be maintained, or has lots of files with
	long filenames, ZOO should be used...  Look at the ARP distribution?
	It took me hours to fix up all those ARC'd segments....

	This is why DNET is being distributed on sources as a uuencoded
	ZOO archive...  There is no other way to maintain the directory
	structure and I wasn't about to hand-generate the ARCs or split
	everything into a thousand singular-directory files and provide
	a script to restore it.

	And I'm a convert, BTW.  A month ago I didn't like ZOO.  But now....

					-Matt