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From: -Rich-@cup.portal.com (Richard Sherman Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why are binaries both Sharred and uuencoded?
Message-ID: <37619@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 21:51:27 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Hi,


	I just recently started checking out the binaries, and was
surprised to find that the programs are both Sharred and uuencoded.
I was wondering if anyone could tell my why? Would'nt it be sufficient
to just uuencode the files? This also requires more disk space than
just uudecoding the files would require (I do not like to erase the 
intermediate files till I get a working file).

	It seems that sharring is an unnecessary step that has no
value, and adds an extra step to extracting the binary.

						Rich
					-Rich-@cup.portal.com