[net.micro.atari16] Uudecode vs. sources

braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner) (09/05/86)

In article <1326@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>     ... the importance of posting real source code
>instead of Uuencoded files.  Often a slightly broken source can be repaired
>without reposting the whole code...

Yeah!

I have never managed to get ANYTHING uudecoded and running on the ST.
But I have downloaded a lot of source code (including microEMACS and Proff)
using ASCII (no error checking) and had very few problems.  (The rare missing
bytes usually were a tab on the left, i.e. it compiled anyway!)

- Moshe Braner

"Let the source be with you!"