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From: danz@hplsla.UUCP (danz)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: UUENCODE/DECODE format (it needs che
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 09:44:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 09:44:00 1986
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Nf-From: hplsla!danz    Mar 10 07:44:00 1986




Hey, everybody, lets quit evading.  This chap has a good point.

My experience has been that the chance of downloading, decoding,
and ending up with a working binary is abou 50%, which is disgusting.
I suspect that some improvements to the encode/decode pair are in
order, and the changes suggested sound reasonable.

As for the argument that "this is net.sources not net.binaries" --
my experience has been that downloading, compiling and ending up with a
working binary is about 50% also, unless one wants to spend hours
in someone else's source code.  Binaries serve a good purpose -- lets
insure that they can be transferred confidently.

Dan
hplabs!hplsla!danz