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From: doug@xenixsp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: adventure **FLAME!!**
Message-ID: <-1211803@xenixsp>
Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 13:39:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: xenixsp.-1211803
Posted: Sat Jul 12 13:39:00 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jul-86 04:20:45 EDT
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Nf-From: xenixsp.UUCP!doug    Jul 12 12:39:00 1986


>I almost forgot, unpacking instructions for Adventure parts 1-7:
>
>I packed the source using Mauldin's "packmail" program (much like
>"shar"), compressed them on a VAX 8600 using compress 4.0 (max bits)
>and then "uuencoded" the shar files. To unpack, remove the header, run
>through "uudecode" producing the files "pack.out.0[1234567].Z",
>uncompress them,
>put the "shar" files in whatever directory you want,

********** FLAME ON! **********

I just love usenet, now not only do people fill up your hard disks
with sources for non-unix computers, (no flames intended there,) *BUT*
now we have people filling up hard disk's and tying up the phone
lines with sources that most every body *CAN* use or convert to 
their machines, BUT compressed in such a way that most of the net
can't READ IT!!!!!, My machine like so many others is NOT a vax,
does NOT have a 32 bit processer, BUT is a unix system, and most
of the net.sources that work on unix machines work on it, but 
one thing it CAN NOT do is UNCOMPRESS something that is COMPRESSed
with 16bit compression!!! this means that for all the effort (not
to mention money) that was spent to get the posted adventure program
down to my site I CANNOT IN ANY WAY USE IT! it's not like it was
written for another machine, it was writting for this type of 
enviorment, BUT munged in such a way to make it TOTALY USELESS!
I won't even go into the fact that pc's, amgia's, mac's, SCO xenix
..etc.. machines that have C compilers CANNOT UNCOMPRESS IT either!
This makes the posted game WORTHLESS to anyone not running on
a 32bit (or better) machine.

*********** FLAME OFF! *********


PLEASE! if you are going to post something BIG (hack, adventure, larn, etc)
shar it up and post it in ASCII or at least a PACK program that works
on any machine.


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