jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) (09/10/90)
Submitted-by: jac Posting-number: Volume 1, Administrivia: 11 In this issue: Bitnet chomping of characters categorizing by machines a package runs on -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Kahn <bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com> [ Re: Bitnet chomping of certain characters ] An alternative to using uuen/decode is to use the xxen/decode program that is also available from most any c.s.u archive. It uses a smaller set of characters (so will probably be a little larger; no hard numbers either way) BUT you would not have to worry about character munging by BITNET gateways. Another alternative to this is simply provide a way to convert the munged character (the ~ or ^; I forget which) back to its original character (^ or ~ respectively). I may be a bit off but this is the only munging Ive ever heard of. [ I've gotten some mail about this from Bitnet users who claim that they have no control over file munging. If the only hacking necessary is to quote either the ~ or the ^, I guess I retract my objections. Trigraphs, however, are right out. ] [ Re: A Read.Me to indicate what machines/OS a package runs on ] The submitting author should be required to at least tell you what the package does or requires in a note to the archive maintainers. This could be made into a READ.ME file if none is aleady provided... [ I was intending to enforce such a policy. Nothing will be posted without some indication of what it does and what it runs on. ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) The problem with categorising by machines is that most programs should run on most machines. How about lang/type[/machine]/name/ver/part??. Only include the /machine part for stuff that *is* machine specific. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get something posted to comp.sources.apple2, send it to: Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac Please mark comments that are not to be posted with "Not for Posting". Otherwise, I often can't tell. Jonathan A. Chandross Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac