Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Portable C & shars (Was Re: compress - tar - uuencode) Message-ID: <269DC7FD.5AD4@tct.uucp> Date: 13 Jul 90 13:09:17 GMT References: <9007121205.AA07748@jade.berkeley.edu> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 18 According to lwv27@cas.BITNET: >1. You must keep your source lines less than 78 characters [...] >2. You must NEVER use curley brackets. >3. You must never have embedded control characters, including tabs. >4. Your shar must not use any unique shell or commands. >5. Your file names and variable names should be kept small and single case. >6. Each part of your distribute should be kept to 60k or less. I'm supposed to do all this just because some sites have software that is so badly broken they can't even pass articles along verbatim? Didn't anyone on BITNET think of passing articles along in ASCII and translating them AFTER retransmitting them? No way, dudes. If BITNET can't handle my sources code verbatim, then BITNET can go rot. -- Chip, the new t.b answer man ,