rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (03/24/89)
AARRGGH!!! The four QRT postings took up 76K, 26K, 35K, and 80K in my spool directory -- four postings. When I ran uudecode and uncompress I got 200K, 61K, 61K, and 174K; this could have fit in eight postings, and I WOULD HAVE HAD SOURCE TO READ without doing all that work. Major bummer, major mistake. /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (03/25/89)
In article <1610@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >AARRGGH!!! > >The four QRT postings took up 76K, 26K, 35K, and 80K in my >spool directory -- four postings. > >When I ran uudecode and uncompress I got 200K, 61K, 61K, and 174K; >this could have fit in eight postings, and I WOULD HAVE HAD SOURCE >TO READ without doing all that work. > >Major bummer, major mistake. What mistake? The files uudecoded, uncompressed, and untarred ok. It only took 4 postings instead of 8. There was source code included. It took me about two minutes to dearchive everything. Is that a lot of work for a free ray-tracer? I don't get it. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Who sometimes never learns. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``Freedom is the ability to say 2+2=4. Given that, all else follows.''
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (Jerry D Whitnell) (03/28/89)
Sean Casey (sean@ms.uky.edu) writes... |In article <1610@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: |>AARRGGH!!! |> |>Major bummer, major mistake. | |What mistake? | |The files uudecoded, uncompressed, and untarred ok. It only took 4 postings |instead of 8. There was source code included. It took me about two minutes |to dearchive everything. Is that a lot of work for a free ray-tracer? It is for those of us on non-UNIX(TM) machine. I got the stuff on my Mac, now I have to go find uudecode, compress and tar for the Mac as well. Since I use those about once in a blue moon (quick check outside to see what color the moon is...), I'm going to have to work alot more then I would if it were in shar form. | |Sean Jerry Whitnell jwhitnell@cup.portal.com
welli@thermob.UUCP (M. Wellner) (03/30/89)
In article <11332@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > >The files uudecoded, uncompressed, and untarred ok. It only took 4 postings >instead of 8. There was source code included. It took me about two minutes >to dearchive everything. Is that a lot of work for a free ray-tracer? > I also untared all arcieves, but I still miss the source of RAY2 for the Amiga-Users which is discribed in the documentation. May someone post it, if it isn't to large? Sincerely, -- | | /\ /\ ` Michael Wellner | | | /\ \/ \/ | Kapweg 3 \_/ \_/___\/__/\___/\__/ \_ 1000 Berlin 51 Tel.Nr.: 030/4954026 Nothing's so worse that it can't get worser - accept my English. == UUCP: ...!unido!tmpmbx!thermob!welli