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From: ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl
Message-ID: <4044@dah.sub.org>
Date: 29 Dec 90 09:17:07 GMT
References: <1990Dec28.075123.6114@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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Organization: Public Access UNIX System for Landkreis/Stadt Dachau, Germany
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In article <1990Dec28.075123.6114@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Kent Paul Dolan writes:

>Uuencoded files have nice, regular, short lines, free of control
>characters, that transit gateways and news software well. I don't want
>to tell someone with a 132 character wide screen who's trying to decide
>whether it's worth the pain and torment to publish their code for the
>benefit of the net that s/he can only write code in the left 3/5ths or
>so of the screen because the USENet news software is braindead.

That "braindead" USENET news software happens to connect a world 
full of disparate computer systems and their users.  It is this
connectivity that makes USENET so wonderful.  Good *source* files
have nice, regular, short lines, free of control characters, that
transit gateways and news software well. ;-)
 

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