boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) (07/15/88)
Recently people have asked for help in getting binaries from
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d, and someone suggested the regular posting of a guide
for newcomers to UseNet for that purpose. As I volunteered to create such a
guide, and had one vote of support via e-mail, and none against, I will go
ahead with it anyways. I will try to make it as general as possible, while
still being able to make new user's understand what to do. Here is the basic
set up I have in mind at the moment:
1) Why uuencoding is used
2) Encoding on a Unix host
3) Encoding on a PC
4) Decoding on a Unix host
5) Decoding on a PC
6) Up/Downloading using XModem
7) Up/Downloading using Kermit
8) Up/Downloading using ZModem
This will probably be split up into 2 different manuals, with a revision of
my posting about using FTP as a third manual.
I would like to have a few people "proofread" the manuals before releasing
them, by verifying the information being correct, etc. If a few new people
to the net would care to contact me, I'd appreciate it. Also, I would like
at least one person with FTP access to the ArpaNet as well, to test out the
FTP manual.
Of course, due to the large amount of different programs available, I will
try to use the most basic ones as possible, with more specific references
added in (for such things as Richard Marks UUENCODE/UUDECODE program for
PC's).
Any comments to this are welcome.
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Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange Coordinator
ArpaNet: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu
UUCP : {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et. al.}!ulowell!hawk!boneillboneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) (07/19/88)
I've already gotten several responses in asking for help in proofreading and
testing of the Beginner's manuals, more so than I expected. I will be
contacting some of those people, both new users and experienced ones. If you
do not hear from me, it is because I had enough people to check out the
manuals.
I have revised the ftp manual, and I'll be working some more on the others
tomorrow night, and hopefully have them ready by Thursday night for mailing.
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Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange Coordinator
ArpaNet: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu
UUCP : {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et. al.}!ulowell!hawk!boneill