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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Portable C & shars (Was Re: compress - tar - uuencode)
Message-ID: <2750@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:30:28 GMT
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Here's the rules I try to follow:

1.  Screw EBCDIC -- use ASCII or ISO whatever-it-is.
2.  Assume a reasonably clean transport mechanism, but try to detect errors.
3.  Keep it under 60K.
4.  Avoid control characters, except for ^I ^L and perhaps ^H.
5.  Keep your lines 80chars.

This maximizes the chance that your software gets delivered, intact, to
most systems on Usenet and off-shoot networks.  It also maximizes the
value of your posting, since people can READ your posting, without pulling
the whole thing over and unpacking it.

Posting anything other than human-readable sourcecode to a sources
newsgroup is a crime.

Your not-so-humble-c.s.unix-moderator, who is about to go on a much-needed
vacation.
	/rich $alz
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