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 Lines: 17 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) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me