m0p@k.cc.purdue.edu (S. Kulikowski) (09/22/88)
i would like to vote in favor of a single file posting to the net
with ftp available after. ftp just isn't available to a lot of sites.
besides, i like the convenience of pulling the file or not on first
sight.
one thing though... which compressed format to use. a few months ago
i pulled a file from this net. the header said it was uuencoded and
to use PKXARC to unpack it. after chopping off the routing info and
heading statements, PKXARC claimed it could not read the resulting
file. when i asked around, i was told that uuencoding requires a uniform
line length and that some mailing processes will automatically truncate
multiple blanks at the end of lines. the result is to render uuencoded
files useless for mail transfer. that is what i was told, and i could not
get the file unpacked, so posting it was useless.
stan
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