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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Message-ID: <21473.275f60ad@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Dec 90 09:28:13 GMT
References: <1717@syteke.be> <1064@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <1717@syteke.be> jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) writes:
>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.

Not all of us read news on UNIX systems. There are several other news readers
around. We don't all have access to a UNIX system for unshar'ing, and
the various unshar programs, although useful, quite often break on some
new shar variant.

Let's keep things as they are, PLEASE.
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