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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
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Date: 11 Jul 90 14:14:12 GMT
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In article <1990Jul10.160257.24183@cs.dal.ca> bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca writes:
>Not all common tools are "available", in the sense that they can be
>recovered from archive sites and recompiled, on all machines.  For
>example, I cannot get 16-bit uncompression on my MS-DOS machine, and the
>uncompress I ported to my obsolete Unix box is pretty flaky.

How strange.. I have no fewer than three (3) independant 16-bit uncompress
programs on my MSDOS machine, all of which were easy to obtain from SIMTEL20.

Two of them even handle the older 12-bit style as well.  Also, I have two
versions of programs to handle tar files, and a multitude of UU/XX decoders,
again, all from SIMTEL20.

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