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From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Proposed change to names of sources/binaries postings
Summary: Keep the numbers
Message-ID: <1599@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 90 12:42:40 GMT
References: <1588@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1990Apr12.195502.7357@uwasa.fi>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <1990Apr12.195502.7357@uwasa.fi>, hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes:
> 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.
> >
Please keep the numbers.  Arabic numerals are one of the few universal
pleasures in the world.  Language may screw up a,b,c but not 1,2,3.

Also, using uud, just append the files all together and apply uud.
No fuss, no muss. 

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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