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From: clif@intelca.UUCP (Clif Purkiser)
Newsgroups: net.sources.mac,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: net.sources.mac considered harmful?
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 13:07:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 13:07:50 1986
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> My apology in advance for the cross-posting to net.sources.mac, but this
> is something that directly relates to that newsgroup. All followups should
> be sent to net.micro.mac only (it will automatically if your software isn't
> broken...)
> 
> I recently posted two sets of software to net.sources.mac -- a set of
> files for the Boston II Font and the ADVSYS adventure package. I'm quite
> dismayed at the number of people who have written back and told me that
> they are broken at their site.  I know that the package worked when it
> left my machine, and there have been places on the net where it has worked,
> so it isn't a global problem.
> 
> It seems to me, thnking back, that there hasn't been a single significant
> posting to n.s.m for a while that hasn't been garbaged somewhere. BinHexes,
> unfortunately, are very suceptible to single bit/byte errors.
> thanx
> 
> chuq
> 
> 
> -- 
> :From the lofty realms of Castle Plaid:          Chuq Von Rospach 
> chuq%plaid@sun.COM	FidoNet: 125/84		 CompuServe: 73317,635
> {decwrl,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,pyramid,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!plaid!chuq


	I believe the reason chuq's posting get screwed up is that
his signature is always appended to the end of the postings.  I find
that most of the people who post stuff to net.sources.mac do not have 
their signature lines at the end of the file.  In the past I had problems
with Chuq's posting until I discovered that his signature was appended to
the binhexed file.  Chuq cute little signature is certain to cause BinHex to 
give a bad CRC result.  

	I have not yet found an automated way of downloading stuff.  Currently
I have to save all of the posting to a directory, then I go and strip
off all the header and download information.  I then have to jump to bottom
of the file and check to remove the persons signature if present.  Lately
people have been spliting their posting into small chunks.  Reconstructing
these posting is very tedious and error prone.  

	I am very appreciative of the people who post all the fantastic
mac stuff to the net, but I wish they would follow a few guidlines
to make life easier for those of us who download it. 

	1. Minimize the number of files. Use PackIt I or II if necessary.
(Are there really that many sites which can not accept files greater
than 64K?  I am on a 80286 base Xenix machine which seems to handle large
files very well despite the 64K segment limit.)

	2. Put the line 
----------------------------cut here-------------------------------
	   immediately before the line "This file must be converted with
	   BinHex"

	3. Get rid of your bloody signature.  I like to read peoples
	creative signoff lines but my mac could care less.  
	    

	Thanks 
	Clif

P.S. Chuq, I downloaded AdvSys without any problems.  Its neat thanks
for the posting. 
-- 
Clif Purkiser, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROPROCESSORS
{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,idi,omsvax}!intelca!clif
	
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