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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <165@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 00:32:44 GMT
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Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Tom Neff (tneff@dasys1.UUCP) writes:
> or just as good, port the uuencoded text
> stream over to the PC.  A perfectly good PC port of uudecode exists.

What Tom fails to consider with this statement is how *extremely* nice
it was to be able to read through the (almost) non-existent documentation
for a recently posted demonstration to determine that to use the really
neat stuff I needed an 8087 and that I had to get some manual from UofC
to use any of it, BEFORE I hassled with shoving hundreds of kilobytes
at my PC.  It is VERY important to be able to pull documentation files
out of the archive on the host system (which is usually a UNIX derivative).
It is important for two big reasons.  One is so you know whether or not
you really want to hassle with sending it to your PC.  The other is so
you can use the nice fast laser printer on the UNIX box to print the
300 page manual, rather than the 10 year old Epson MX-100 or 10 cps
Olympia (feed one sheet at a time) that you happen to have at home without
sending it to the PC, then extracting it, then sending it back up where
it came from.  (Maybe when one of them breaks, my wife will let me get
something more state-of-the-art.  ...  Naaaaahh!)
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"I believe in the Tooth Fairy."  "I believe in Santa Claus."
	"I believe in the future of the Space Program."