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From: wlipa@oracle.oracle.com (William Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Please post to comp.mac.binaries!
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.202922.3135@oracle.com>
Date: 24 Jan 90 20:29:22 GMT
References: <1990Jan21.215048.11691@smsc.sony.com> <12303@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: wlipa@oracle.com (William Lipa)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont CA
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In article <12303@cs.yale.edu> naiman-jeffrey@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeffrey Naiman) writes:
>The subject line says it all. Many people cannot ftp and do not subscribe
>to bulletin boards. Even people who do FTP cannot search through the loads
>of material at an archive like info-mac. If the binaries posting is untolerably
>slow, then send programs to both places.

Actually, all of the material stored in the Info-Mac archives at sumex
is available through a mailserver for those on Bitnet or who otherwise
cannot use FTP. As a result, everyone who can send Internet mail can
(theoretically) access the archive.

As far as searching though the vast number of files, all I can offer you
are the listing of recent files (/help/recent-files.txt), the listing of
all files (/help/all-files.txt), and the abstract files which contain the
text headers for every file in a given directory.

Bill Lipa
Info-Mac