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From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.152122.23137@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:21:22 GMT
References: <1717@syteke.be>
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In article <1717@syteke.be>, jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) says:
>
>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 <file> 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

Actually, I am currently running from a PC but normally I access from
a VMS type machine. 

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu