Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please Message-ID: <52841@sun.uucp> Date: 11 May 88 17:09:59 GMT References: <8805110255.AA21249@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 17 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. --Chuck --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.