Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: FORM, nice but... Message-ID: <7851@cs.yale.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 19:31:54 GMT References: <274@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1103891319123100@thelake.UUCP> <34894@grapevine.uucp> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 30 In article <34894@grapevine.uucp> koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes: >>On a (sort of) related subject, does anybody else find the shar'ed source >>code in comp.sources.atari.st to be a constant source of trouble? >>UUDecoding a .ZOO file >>is *so* much simpler. > >When I started moderating comp.sources.atari.st, I put all the sources in >uuencoded arcfiles (check the early volume 1 entries on panarthea). I got >about twenty complaints from people at various sites, demanding that I >use shar instead for various reasons. Since that seemed to be what the >public wanted, I switched over. Frankly, shar is often more of a pain for >me, too, as (posting rules notwithstanding) sources are frequently sent to >me as arc or zoo files, which I have to repack as sharfiles. (Such sources >tend to sit in my queue for a while.) > >What do people think? Should I switch back to uue'd sources? I'd much rather have a UUD encoded .arc or .zoo file. They're much easier to decode, and I can do the decoding reliably on my ST, whereas I generally decode shar files on a Unix machine. Also, I am another person that goes through the nuisance of pulling the sources off comp.sources.atari.st, the binaries off of comp.binaries.atari.st, decodes them both, and finally combines the result into a single .arc or .zoo file. It would be nice if this process could be streamlined. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================