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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac (mod.sources...)
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 13:45:52 EST
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> >I don't buy this. The IBM-PC is certainly no more of a computer (less of a
> >micro) than the Mac, and there have been plenty of excellent sources in
> >...
> >If the IBM-PC can do it, why *NOT* the Mac?
> 
> I don't understand this.  What is the importance of uuencode in the discussion.
> Binhex is used for the mac, and an excellent decoder of binhex was posted
> to the net. (xbin). In source.

It's not very important... but it *is* supposed to be the standard binary
transfer program for mail and news. It's not that big a deal, though I would
prefer to be able to do *something* with this code. The important point is
that if you can post IBM-PC sources to the net, why can't you do the same for
Macintosh sources?
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