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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Portable C & shars (Was Re: compress - tar - uuencode)
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Date: 12 Jul 90 16:17:49 GMT
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In article <9007121205.AA07748@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@cas.BITNET writes:

>6.      Each part of your distribute should be kept to 60k or less.
>
>        Reason: Some sites refuse to pass mail items greater than this.

Compu$erve won't pass mail that is more than 50k for their
non-commercial users. Some UUCP sites won't pass mail bigger than 32k.

7. Make sure your shar contains no trailing spaces. Some mailers eat
   trailing spaces.

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