Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!amdahl!pacbell!sorinc!magik From: magik@sorinc.UUCP (Darrin A. Hyrup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: <9001181640.AA03664@sorinc.UUCP> Date: 18 Jan 90 17:40:20 GMT References: <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Yes, I'd like that. Lines: 59 In article dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: >In article <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Jeff Martens writes: >>In article dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: >> >>>The recent "ChatterBox" posting will not "unshar" correctly, because >>>it uses filenames longer than 14 characters. >> >>You must be using a REALLY old version of Unix. >> > >I was afraid this might break up into "My OS is better than YOUR OS" >wars like this. PLEASE, lets not continue it!!!!! I agree, thats useless. >>>Would it be possible to make it so that future postings "unshar" >>>correctly under Unix? (I know, just be thankful I get them at all! :-) >> >>An operating system should be able to handle a descriptive file name. > >I agree totally. However, the one I use doesn't. Now, if the moderator >is the one making up the file names, then I am only asking that he >consider us poor "14 char file name" folks. If he doesn't, then fine. >I can always edit the shar files. > >>I'd hope that the moderators wouldn't try to enforce anything like >>this. > >Would that make the "OLD" OSs go away? Would my company buy a new >machine because of it? Just because YOU have access to something better >doesn't mean that the rest of us have to live up to it's specs. 14 >character file names are upward compatable, at least. :-) What an operating system should or shouldn't be able to handle is not really what we need to decide here. I think what Tad should be doing is to post all submissions as .ZUU files (uuencoded ZOO files, broken up into whatever file sizes chosen). That method allows those who unarchive their files on UNIX (or any OS) to uudecode the files, and put them together into a .ZOO file that can easily be transported to wherever it need go. Plus that also makes it easier to handle submitted binary files and object code (besides having obvious storage and transfer time savings over uncompressed shar files.) It would be a good policy to adopt for all amiga {sources|binaries} group postings in the future in my opinion. (Although my personal preference would be to have uuencoded LHARC .LZH files instead of .ZOO files to conserve net bandwidth and save transfer times. Although I'm sure someone out there may disagree with me on that for their own reasons.) >"What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be Hope this helps, Darrin Hyrup -- Darrin A. Hyrup // AMIGA Enthusiast rencon!esfenn!dah magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM \X/ & Software Developer pacbell!sorinc!magik ========================================================================== "Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered as possessing merit."