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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
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Date: 11 May 88 17:09:59 GMT
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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

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