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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: rn for Minix [..] (Now: COMIC vs. Compress)
Message-ID: <7964@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 19:04:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: umd5.7964
References: <1991Jan30.000227.10279@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <910203943@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org> <1991Feb3.192234.20855@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1991Feb3.192234.20855@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes:
|In article <910203943@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org> root@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (The root) writes:
||  [..] 13- (or 12-) bit compressed format [..] IS THE ONLY
|| FORMAT EVERYBODY CAN READ!
|
|Sorry, I thought Comic had wide distribution within the Minix community.

If it came with Minix, then it has wide distribution. COMIC is not included
with Minix (Net-upgrade or Prentice-Hall "flavors").

Compress is included, and all machines can use the 13-bit format.

Is the Minix community suddenly going to use some other binary encoder than
UUencode that is not shipped with Minix ?  I rather doubt it...
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