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From:         Martin Sckopke <X913%DMAFHT1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject:      Distribution of Sources
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Date: 2 May 91 07:18:39 GMT
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Hi netters,

I hate to bring up the subject again, but I read about it in connection
to the distribution of MINI-X. What would be so difficult about distri-
buting Minix sources as uuencoded, 13bit-compressed tar files ? I think
every version of the OS has the mentioned tools supplied and even the
people on BITnet (like me) could use them. Ok, I still got problems
with uuencoded files (a gateway changes some characters), but it's
quite easy to write a little filter for this problem. So where's the
advantage in using shar ? Sometimes unshar doesn't work, sometimes
the shell crashes while trying to unpack the sources, u can't send any
binaries and so on. So if I missed something, please inform me.

                                       !   f u cn rd ths,
       Martin Sckopke (X913@DMAFHT1)   !   u cn gt a gd jb
                                       !   n cmptr prgrmn.