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From: thompson@oberon.UUCP (mark thompson)
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Subject: Re: Comments on MacDeveloper magazine
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 15:17:52 EDT
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>rjd@linus.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis) writes:
>
> Yes, I agree that MacDeveloper was quite good.  Can we try to find some nice
> way of posting it to the net?  It took me ooooh so long to download all of
> those separate parts and then try to print them all out and wait tens of
> minutes for them to be converted to the newer MacWrite format and printed.
> If this electronic publishing business is going to work we've got to agree
> on something better.  
> 
> I suggest that someone post a copy to the net in larger chunks, in the new
> Macwrite format, Pack-It'ed together.  This would _greatly_ reduce the time
> involved in the transfer/printing process.  
>
I strongly support the electronic magazine also. 

Please don't make the chunks larger! In particular, don't packit it into
one large file, then break it up for UUCP posting (something that a lot
of people seem to do).  My MAC is connected to my unix(tm) by a VERY
noisy line. Large files are a large pain, and transmitting them as small
files to the mac, glueing them back together, then binhexing, takes hours.

One can easilly transmit 'n' seperate files to the mac automagically, and
you can select and print a group also, so that seems like a non-problem.

As to the MacWrite version, I am indifferent, except to note that I have
kept the 2.2 version handy, as the 4.x versions seem to have many little
problems, especially with text-only files.

-mark
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