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From: Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans)
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Subject: Re: ftp & newcastle
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Date: 20 May 91 10:44:06 GMT
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Graham Toal writes:

>I found this with a recent download - it seems Albert is in the process of
>converting all the Sparked files into .tar.Z.uu files!  I wholeheartedly
>support this. I was getting scunnered with incompatible arc formats too;

My policy is quite simple: I try to minimise the amount of time I have to
spend. If people send me Spark files, I store them as Spark files. If people
send me adfs discs, I extract them on our R260 network with adfscp -R, and
then compress and tar them, mainly because Spark is desparately slow in
creating archives. I do not convert anything if I can avoid it.

Albert