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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
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Date: 11 May 88 20:28:07 GMT
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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'
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