lwv27@CAS.BITNET (10/12/90)
Okay - I have tried sending mail to the moderator of this group but havent heard from him for several weeks. Where are the postings? We went thru a lot of discussions about the archive site, and the last I heard, which was 3-5 weeks ago now, was that the upcoming weekend sources would start appearing. They didnt. -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]
jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) (10/13/90)
lwv27@CAS.BITNET Larry W. Virden > Okay - I have tried sending mail to the moderator of this group but > havent heard from him for several weeks. Well, the moderator never got your email. Golly. How about that. Shucks. (And you heard from me about ten days ago, Larry.) > Where are the postings? > We went thru a lot of discussions about the archive site, and the last > I heard, which was 3-5 weeks ago now, was that the upcoming weekend sources > would start appearing. They didnt. Well, the moderator wrote a simple apple archiving program which is still being hashed out. He also changed jobs and has been a bit busy the past few weeks. He will try to post the archiver, some adminstrative things about how posting should work, and some actual code, real soon. Ok? He is trying to get everything together; scrounging up all the tools necessary to do a good job takes a bit of time. (For those of you who haven't guessed, I am the moderator of comp.sources.apple2. I also would have responded to Larry via email, but some of you are probably wondering the same things he is.) Jonathan A. Chandross Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/14/90)
In article <Oct.12.21.33.32.1990.21745@paul.rutgers.edu> jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes: >Well, the moderator wrote a simple apple archiving program which is still >being hashed out. To elaborate on this a little: There has been substantial off-line discussion concerning the best format for source archives, as well as several trial implementations of archiver/dearchiver programs (in C initially, with consideration of porting to AppleSoft BASIC). I contributed to code to the archiver/dearchiver that I had been using for host/Apple file interchange, which was very clean and simple, but which first of all benefitted from one design change to avoid having to perform further file transformation on the host system, and which secondly turned out to be TOO simple when the brain damage introduced by various mailers (particularly on BITNET, but to some degree also on other systems) was taken into account. This necessitated the redesign of the archive format. I think that has just about settled down, and JAC has developed his own implementation of archiver/ dearchiver for the revised format. I'll probably be updating mine also. One of these implementations is likely to be the first set of sources posted to comp.sources.apple2. We only want to go through this once, which is why we've been working so hard on it up front.