Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!syteke!syteke.be From: jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Why are postings NOT in shar form Message-ID: <1717@syteke.be> Date: 3 Dec 90 11:20:45 GMT Sender: jim@syteke.be Organization: Hughes LAN Systems, Inc - European Support Office Lines: 9 I may have missed something a long while back but it seems odd that all the binary postings in this group seem to require editing to remove the headers/etc. Given that most (I assume) are reading and posting news from *NIX type machines, why don't the uuencoded files get wrapped up so a simple sh will expose them. -- Jim Sanchez | jim@syteke.be (PREFERRED) Hughes LAN Systems | OR uunet!mcsun!ub4b!syteke!jim Brussels Belgium | OR {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim