Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Distribution of Sources Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 14:09:28 GMT References: <52405@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 20 (About distributing sources uud'ed && compressed) The major advantage of using shar is that the sources (and documentation!) can be read before unpacking all. This proofreading can be done in your news reader (when you are on USENET), while for unpacking you need to go to a shell and think. (OK, just a littlebit, but even that is very much compared to just paging through a file -- I am very flexible in skipping the leading X ). But i (and i hope everybody) will send all its sources at least in uud'ed from. Question: small sources do i send double. Any objections/advantages seen by any netters? Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer