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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Universal machine-readable format?
Message-ID: <423@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 20 Aug 90 18:19:05 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.165518.16675@phri.nyu.edu>
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In article <1990Aug15.165518.16675@phri.nyu.edu>
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:

>	If you had to send some data in machine-readable form to somebody
>(perhaps many, unspecified, people), but had no idea what kind of machine
>they had, what format/media would you use to maximize the probability that
>it would be readable by the recipient?  The quantity of data is small enough

I would recommend MS-DOS 360K disks.  Many machines can import the
files directly, and almost every site has a PC that can Kermit the
files to the host.
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