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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re^2: More Minix ST kernel speedups
Message-ID: <3220@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 Sep 89 17:22:30 GMT
References: <23662@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <23662@louie.udel.EDU> I5110401%DBSTU1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Just a suggestion : Would you (and i mean *everyone*) please send more soft-
>ware in uuencode format ? That would be very good for those hanging on this
>[comments censored] bitnet |

Although in theory it should be possible to uudecode things every time, I
have had problems.  It is also extra work for nonbitnet sites, and consumes
extra network bandwidth.

Another possibility: is there anyone who could function as a gateway, i.e.
someone who is on USENET and bitnet, and who could take could postings,
uuencode them, and then get them onto bitnet or even send them to a bitnet
mailing list of interested people.  I hate to restrict everybody to upper
case letters only because there is somebody, somewhere, who still has an
IBM 026 card punch around.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)