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From: braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Uudecode vs. sources
Message-ID: <974@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 23:54:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.974
Posted: Thu Sep  4 23:54:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Sep-86 00:00:54 EDT
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Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: Me too: much better luck with source text!

In article <1326@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>     ... the importance of posting real source code
>instead of Uuencoded files.  Often a slightly broken source can be repaired
>without reposting the whole code...

Yeah!

I have never managed to get ANYTHING uudecoded and running on the ST.
But I have downloaded a lot of source code (including microEMACS and Proff)
using ASCII (no error checking) and had very few problems.  (The rare missing
bytes usually were a tab on the left, i.e. it compiled anyway!)

- Moshe Braner

"Let the source be with you!"