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From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What to do with zuu?
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Date: 1 Nov 89 19:38:38 GMT
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jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) wrote:
>I didn't create the shar files, Bob did. I just UUEncoded the zoo files,
>split them, *and* put directions at the top as to what to do with

Whenever I get a submission, I put the pieces together and then
decompose it into its individual files, just like it should be on the
user's disk.  Then I zoo it back together and do all the other magic.

The reason I go though this seemingly useless task is it keeps
everything in the same format ... same implementation of ZOO, uuencode,
split, shar, etc.  Keeping everything in the same format saves everyone
a lot of headaches.

I'm pretty liberal about what format I'll accept things in, because I
always go though this tear-down/build-up process anyway.  In the future
(coming real soon now) I'm going to post guidelines for submitting
binaries and sources -- in effect, I'm going to give you the checklist
and tools to do what I do.  When you submit a posting to me with the
statement "This conforms to the standard comp.binaries.amiga format"
I'll just send it out immediately w/o any pre-processing.  Anyway, I
haven't put that together yet; I want to post all this other stuff
first.

Oh -- if you submit anything in WARP or ZIP or some other strange format
(other than shar, zoo, arc or tar), I'll probably return it, as I don't
have the means to unpack it, without some hassle.  This is why Empire
hasn't been posted yet.

The 'intro to comp.sys.amiga' posting (just posted, by the way) explains
how to unpack comp.binaries.amiga postings.

..bob