[net.micro] Format for posting of binaries ?

tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin) (02/27/85)

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What is the standard format for posting binary files of PC stuff to 
net.sources ? I understand that CPM/86 files can be hexified and
posted but there is no equivalent (as far as I know) of GENCMD in
MS-DOS or PC-DOS ? I can imagine (ugh!) a posting of a hexified, archived
file where all the internal files have been squeezed.

                                      Sam Chin
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nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (02/28/85)

> 
> What is the standard format for posting binary files of PC stuff to 
> net.sources ? 
> 
>                                       Sam Chin

I have traded binary(.exe and .com) files for a PC by sending a version
passed through the "uuencode" program; it is put back into binary, after
transfer, using uudecode.  Mark Horton, who wrote these programs, has
assured the net they are in the public domain.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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