Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Sources in text mode please Message-ID: <52742@sun.uucp> Date: 10 May 88 22:29:00 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 21 Keywords: No Zoo, No ARC, shar only thank you. Pat, if my mail message didn't get through to you please let me reiterate. My feeling is that the source news groups are for sources and zoo archives are binaries period. Some P, CP (Point, Counter Point) P: Sources are big and often don't come to us as shar files. CP: True, this is why they have their own group and are moderated. If you put them into some encoded binary format over half your "customers" will no longer be able to use them. P: Using zoo increases reliability. CP: Baloney, when unsharing source code, if I get an error I can often correct the line noise in the source and recompile. In an archive file the whole file is often irretriveably blown away. There are more, but this is not meant to be a flame, just a _vigorous_ request that the sources groups remain 'human readable' thank you. --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.