Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please Message-ID: <9037@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 20:28:07 GMT References: <8805110255.AA21249@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <52841@sun.uucp> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 23 In article <52841@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <8805110255.AA21249@cory.Berkeley.EDU> (Matt Dillon) writes: >> We should discuss this, actually. This is my opinion: >> >> (1) The outer layer of source/binaries postings should ALWAYS BE >> A SHAR. Period. What the SHAR contains can be anything... >> uuencoded files, zoo + uuencoded files, arc + uuencoded files, >> text files, whatever, BUT MAKE THAT OUTER LAYER A SHAR! > >I agree with this, except that I still assert that source code should be >source code and not "zooed" or "arced" when distributed. It should always >be shar'd and somethings like .info files will have to be uuencoded. 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. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=