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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
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Date: 11 Jul 90 23:22:17 GMT
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In article <987@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes:

>  If you are concerned about your
>program being modified as it is transmitted through BITNET then make sure
>your source code is portable enough to withstand this.

This isn't easy, especially if you are distributing patches. This is
why comp.os.minix distributes patches as .tar.Z.uu's.

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