pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) (03/27/91)
Now that comp.sources.acorn and comp.binaries.acorn have been created (cheers, Tiggr), hadn't we better agree on the format of the postings, ie what software is going to be used to bundle the data up? --Fil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Colmer, OA Project Leader, Acorn Computers Ltd (pcolmer@acorn.co.uk)
aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) (03/28/91)
In article <6076@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes: >Now that comp.sources.acorn and comp.binaries.acorn have been created >(cheers, Tiggr), hadn't we better agree on the format of the postings, ie >what software is going to be used to bundle the data up? > >--Fil. > I'm pursuing a couple of options within Acorn, and hope to announce a proposed format for binaries next week. Sources will be plain ASCII text. The choices I have at the moment are: 1) Fil's Sumbit/Extract 2) UUcoded Sparkives 3) A new proposal called LZJU90 Options 1 and 3 need some coding done before they are 100% usable (3 more than 1). If you have a strong preference MAIL ME - we used quite enough bandwidth deciding about these groups without doing it all again to choose how things get posted! Alan PS - Congratulations to Philip Banks - first off the mark for the binaries group! Other potential postings are welcome ahead of the decision about how to post them (in formats 1 or 2 above).
gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) (04/02/91)
aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) writes: >The choices I have at the moment are: >1) Fil's Sumbit/Extract >2) UUcoded Sparkives >3) A new proposal called LZJU90 >If you have a strong preference MAIL ME - we used quite enough bandwidth >deciding about these groups without doing it all again to choose how things >get posted! I mailed you before you posted this with an proposal for the BBC, Master and Electron (UUEncoded ARCives, using Bart Bruns's Arc or anything that is compatible with both PC arc 5.1 and Spark 1.00 (not sure about Spark version number)). I haven't heard of you, and don't see it here. I just hope that the group won't be Archimedes only... ---- For the people who haven't seen comp.{binaries,sources}.acorn : many system administrators are slow in creating the groups (including mine :-(), ask them or wait a while. If they wait for more than a month, complain Very Loudly Indeed to them (the sysadm, that is). ---- - Gerben -- --- Gerben Vos <>< - Aconet: BIGBEN!Gerben Vos - Internet: gpvos@cs.vu.nl ---- Waiting since March 24th for the cs.vu.nl system administration ----- to honour the creation of comp.{binaries,sources}.acorn ...
aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) (04/03/91)
In article <9522@star.cs.vu.nl> gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes: > >I haven't heard of you, and don't see it here. I just hope that the group >won't be Archimedes only... > To clear this once and for all (this goes for comp.sys.acorn too) NONE of the comp...acorn groups are for the Archimedes, or any other specific Acorn computer. Whether programs/sources for the 6502 machines appear is up to you out there - I'll be drawing on SID's program library for some postings, but the rest come from you. At the moment I have several waiting to be posted for the ARM machines and none (apart from Gerben's encoding/decoding) for the 6502 machines. (Another general point - since the A3000 is not, strictly speaking, an Archimedes - it is a BBC A3000 computer - I will be differentiating between the distinct families of machines by their CPU, ie 6502 or ARM based. Unless I qualify the statement 6502 includes CMOS 6502s, 6512 etc, and ARM is ARM2 or ARM3.) I'm still arranging things here regarding posting to the new groups and deciding the format - more on that soon. Alan PS - Apologies to Gerben, and anyone else expecting a quick mail reply from me; I'm doing this in addition to everything I do usually, so it sometimes get to wait behind more urgent jobs.