Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cstaqdb From: cstaqdb@warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) Newsgroups: eunet.micro.acorn,comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: 8-bit BBC postings Keywords: 8-bit Message-ID: <1991Jan9.125607.29920@warwick.ac.uk> Date: 9 Jan 91 12:56:07 GMT References: <1991Jan7.122742.6418@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: thughes@uk.ac.warwick.cs Followup-To: eunet.micro.acorn,comp.sys.acorn Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 24 In article patrick@sideways.gen.nz (Pat Cain) writes: > >Okay, I think it would be great to see some 8bit programs here. There >are quite a few 8bit BBC owners on this site who would be interested. >How about developing a BBC version of uuen/decode? In NZ we use a >program that merges BBC files into one, preserving the load/exec >addresses, that may be useful especially if non-source is going to be >posted. > I agree wholeheartedly about posting BBC listings here, and I have some that I may post myself, although they are rather long, so some form of compression would be useful. Perhaps the program mentioned could be posted to the net and then used as standard for 8-bit postings. ============================================================================ Tom Hughes, CS1 thughes@uk.ac.warwick.cs Room 112 Compton Hall cstaqdb@uk.ac.warwick.cu Westwood University of Warwick (0203) 523523 X2927 Coventry CV4 8EE ============================================================================