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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Code postings and uuencode
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Date: 9 Apr 90 02:36:01 GMT
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I've had a lot of difficulty patching code that has been put on the net
as straight shell files, without uuencoding.  Most of the mail agents(?)
seem to mess up tabs and spaces in an unpredictable manner; the code still
compiles, of course, but the fun starts when you try and add patches from
the net, or get some sort of valid crc or even character count.

If you are posting code or patches to the net, therefore, could you please
uuencode them?  One patch that uucp has got at will destroy all the crc's
in that file to the nth generation.

Or, of course, you could write a subtle and comprehensive diff.c that would
compare two c programs, and determine their equivalence.  I say you because
I can't - I've tried, and its beyond me.

Yours in hope - Will
 
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