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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <3604@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 8 Oct 89 20:13:21 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <2992@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) writes:
>I resent having to deal with uuencoded files just for Bitnet.  

On the whole, I agree with you.  However, an additional advantage of doing
it this way is compress + uuencode saves something like 25% of the bandwidth,
and this is going to be very large, so that is definitely worth something.
Also, with my cleanit program and install shell script, however redundant
they may be, the installation of 1.4b should be relatively easy since the
computer will have to do all the work.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)