Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl Message-ID: <39510309@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 28 Dec 90 09:38:44 GMT References: <97261639@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <4410@network.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Distribution: alt Lines: 15 In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >On the other hand, ever since I've switched to compress + uuencode + >shar for shipping out large sets of patches, I've had fewer people >complain about news/mail trashing the file or subsequent patches >failing, since some 'helpful' intermediary decided to put a newline in >column 79, or change tabs to spaces, or.... This is not surprising at all, since the overwhelming urge on seeing one of these massive little goobers is to 'K' the whole posting rather than slog through unpacking it and possibly finding problems... -- "How can a man of integrity get along /// Tom Neff in Washington?" -- Richard Feynman /// tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM