Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Looking for comp.sources.apple2 Message-ID: <14142@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 14 Oct 90 03:06:08 GMT References: <9010121123.AA01784@lilac.berkeley.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 23 In article jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes: >Well, the moderator wrote a simple apple archiving program which is still >being hashed out. To elaborate on this a little: There has been substantial off-line discussion concerning the best format for source archives, as well as several trial implementations of archiver/dearchiver programs (in C initially, with consideration of porting to AppleSoft BASIC). I contributed to code to the archiver/dearchiver that I had been using for host/Apple file interchange, which was very clean and simple, but which first of all benefitted from one design change to avoid having to perform further file transformation on the host system, and which secondly turned out to be TOO simple when the brain damage introduced by various mailers (particularly on BITNET, but to some degree also on other systems) was taken into account. This necessitated the redesign of the archive format. I think that has just about settled down, and JAC has developed his own implementation of archiver/ dearchiver for the revised format. I'll probably be updating mine also. One of these implementations is likely to be the first set of sources posted to comp.sources.apple2. We only want to go through this once, which is why we've been working so hard on it up front.