joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (11/14/85)
In article <343@dolqci.UUCP>, mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker) writes: > > >Try these two commands on your machine: > > >wc $USENET/net/news/[0-9]* > > and > >wc $USENET/net/sources/mac/[0-9]* > > >If you are like me, you'll find the programs in sources/mac worth the > >10% difference in size than all the BULLSHIT in net/news. > > > > Rick Kimball > > Rick; where on earth did you get your numbers? I just ran the > two wc commands and came up with: 181226 bytes for net/news and 284969 > for net/sources/mac. Seems like your 10% difference in size is bullshit > to me, not net/news. Mike's numbers, I daresay, are the accurate ones. Many sites have a policy to expire net.sources and mod.sources more slowly than other newsgroups. That could be what happened at bsdpkh.UUCP. Alternately, Rick might have missed the files in the subdirectories of net.news, such as the net.news.group flamage. -- Joel West (619) 457-9681 CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs}!gould9!joel gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA
tim@ISM780B.UUCP (11/16/85)
/* Written 2:24 pm Nov 12, 1985 by mike@dolqci in ISM780B:net.news */ A question: I have never understood why everybody always posts mac sources in bin-hex form. Why not SOURCE CODE? It would take a lot less room! /* End of text from ISM780B:net.news */ Binhexed executables are probably smaller than source code. I don't have my mac here at the moment, so I can't get any mac examples, but consider the System V.2 shell. The source is about 140k, and the executable is around 40k. Binhex repaces 6 bit sequences with eight bit ones, so even after binhexing, we have a considerable savings.