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From: aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: comp.{binaries,sources}.acorn
Message-ID: <6089@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 27 Mar 91 17:32:42 GMT
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In article <6076@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes:

>Now that comp.sources.acorn and comp.binaries.acorn have been created
>(cheers, Tiggr), hadn't we better agree on the format of the postings, ie
>what software is going to be used to bundle the data up?
>
>--Fil.
>

I'm pursuing a couple of options within Acorn, and hope to announce a
proposed format for binaries next week. Sources will be plain ASCII text.

The choices I have at the moment are:

1) Fil's Sumbit/Extract

2) UUcoded Sparkives

3) A new proposal called LZJU90

Options 1 and 3 need some coding done before they are 100% usable (3 more
than 1).

If you have a strong preference MAIL ME - we used quite enough bandwidth
deciding about these groups without doing it all again to choose how things
get posted!

Alan
                           
PS - Congratulations to Philip Banks - first off the mark for the binaries
group! Other potential postings are welcome ahead of the decision about how
to post them (in formats 1 or 2 above).