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From: doc@j.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Norborg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: mod.amiga.binaries
Message-ID: <2050@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 12:28:39 EDT
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In article <3002@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>Am I imagining things, or is nothing happening in mod.amiga.binaries?
>I'd sure like to see the executables of vt100 2.0 and emacs 3.7.  No, I
>don't have a C compiler yet.  I'm waiting for the new version of Aztec, which
>is waiting for the official 1.2 release...  I'm also waiting for my house
>to get refinanced, so at the moment I'm provisionally poor.
>
    Well Larry, you just brought up a good point.  Not much traffic has
been going on, just for the fact that I haven't really found a great
way to post to these.  One major problem arises when one has to
download binaries to the Amiga, they somehow end up being too long and
need to be truncated.  This is one thing I would love to avoid.  There
is a program that runs on both Unix and the Amiga called ARC that would
solve the problem in that it both compresses files and stores them in a
"tar"ish format which when run on the amiga lets files end up the right
size.
    Now is where it gets complicated.  There is a version of ARC out on
the Amiga, but the guy who released it only released binaries, and he
"booby- trapped" them so that after certain dates it doesn't work.  I
am sorry, but I don't like this attitude with software that was
released into the public domain on both Unix and the IBM-PC (which BTW,
these versions ARE compatible with the Amiga version!)  I am in the
process of trying to port it to the Amiga myself, but haven't had much
time since school started.  I guess the question would be, does anyone
out there have a good method to post binaries to this group so they
will end up OK on the other end, without having to truncate them or
whatever?  Does someone have ARC source converted to the Amiga?  If
not, what would be the best way to post things according to all of you?
    I would appreciate any mail replies you may have!

	Craig Norborg
	mod.amiga.{sources&binaries} moderator
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