Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <10757@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 9 May 88 18:24:04 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1424@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <8405@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4281@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Zoo Arc

In article <4281@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
| [........................................]  If
| subscribers can only download net news on a Vax at work, for instance, and
| need to port the result to a PC afterwards, let them squirt the whole
| ARC file over, it should uudecode with full integrity on the VAX even if
| the resulting file is opaque; or just as good, port the uuencoded text
| stream over to the PC.  A perfectly good PC port of uudecode exists.

  I think the term 'dribble' would be more appropriate. I want to be
able to read the docs before 'squirting them over' at 1200 baud. Using
the PC to do the work is appropriate with a limited UNIX systems and a
fast line to the PC (or some form of unlimited message service on your
phone). Many of us want to use ARC or ZOO to read the docs first.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me