Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!tut!ra!uwasa.fi!hv From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Proposed change to names of sources/binaries postings Message-ID: <1990Apr12.195502.7357@uwasa.fi> Date: 12 Apr 90 19:55:02 GMT References: <1588@male.EBay.Sun.COM> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 22 In article <1588@male.EBay.Sun.COM> koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes: >Someone has suggested that since software to automatically save news articles >using the filename in the "Archive-name" pseudo-header line, I should stop >calling the articles program/part01, program/part02, etc. and start calling >them program/program.uaa, program/program.uab, and so on. This would enable >Dumas uud to pick up the parts effortlessly. > >Personally, I'd like to see Dumas uud hacked to take multiple filenames >on the command line instead, but it's no problem for me to use the proposed >filenames if people prefer that. I'm better with numbers:- One point that should be remembered in this context is that here in Europe we usually get the parts in different order than what they are meant to be so when numbers are in sight I can better go Next and Previous to cellect the parts in right order. -- Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi, hv@funic.funet.fi) University of Vaasa, Finland ftp site chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) PC & Mac directories ftp site funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) Atari ST & Mac directories