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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: mod.amiga.binaries
Message-ID: <2207@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 09:59:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 09:59:47 1986
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Concerning the recent postings about the best format for mod.amiga.binaries:
please, oh please, please no more ARC'ed files! Did you ever spend an hour
downloading ARC'ed files only to discover that your version of ARC wasn't
late enough? No? I have. Not fun. Could some kind soul make available to me
the fixed (ie does spacing right) Epson printer driver (or Panasonic if it's
out there) by E-mail? Catching a plane to the "major centers" just to pick
it up seems a little uneconomical. Ditto with any BBS's...long distance
charges would be astronomical, and chances are the files would all be
ARC'ed anyway.

At least a uuencoded binary can be decoded, xmodemed, and run by anybody.
Using ARC might save some *local* phone time, but make it impossible for
those of us "out in the sticks" to benefit.

John "Mr. Isolated" Russell
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