VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET (12/20/89)
Hello all, In Info-Atari16 Digest #747, thelake!steve@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU (Steve Yelvington) asked: >On a (sort of) related subject, does anybody else find the shar'ed source >code in comp.sources.atari.st to be a constant source of trouble? > >The shar format doubtless is an excellent solution for Un*x systems, but >for non-Un*x sites, there is just enough variation in the formats to >frustrate any attempts at automated unpacking. One of the TOS-based >shar utilities that I use here has a bug that makes it double lines. >Another can't handle shell archives that do not have a strippable >character (usually X) prepended to each line. > >I almost always wind up having to repair the sharred sources or the >resulting files with a text editor, and often it's easier just to split up >the shell archive manually with MicroEMACS. Arggh! UUDecoding a .ZOO file >is *so* much simpler. Yes, yes, please stop those shar files. I have to manually repair each and every one I receive, if only because of long lines having been wrapped. I'm grateful to Steve Grimm for the work he puts into the archives, but I'd rather get sources in ZOO (or ARC or ZIP or ...) format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 (will go away some day ...) Volker A. Brandt UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 (alternative) Angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt (Bonn, West Germany) ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU