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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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Subject: Re: Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl
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Date: 5 Jan 91 22:41:09 GMT
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Agreed with everything that Tom Neff says -- I rather prefer that
human-readable source remain human-readable when posted in Usenet
articles.

However, some sort of checksum should be included for verification.  (I
like my "brik" program, naturally, but the UNIX "sum" program also
works.)  Unfortunately most people don't include such a check code when
they post shar'd source, so de facto an archived-uuencoded posting is
better.
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