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From: petera@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Ashwood-Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC-LISP instructions for extracting it from articles 1..5
Message-ID: <3252@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 16:02:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 16:02:20 1986
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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> 
> >        The following 5 articles are a uuencoded archive of the latest PC-LISP
> > distribution V2.12. You need the utilities uudecode either on your host or PC
> > and you need a recent copy of ARC on your PC. Both of these have been floating
> 
> Please do not post UUENCODED data to this newsgroup!
> There is net.source.(whatever) news groups for this purpose!
> I, for one, print out news groups before reading them.
> Postings like this costs big bucks!  UUENCODE costs
> big for nothing!  So, please consider before posting

   First of all net.sources is not appropriate for uuencoded executables as
I have been told the first time I distributed PC-LISP. This is because the
distribution is not source code, it is executable, raw, binary, 1's and 0's.
It must be uuencoded otherwise the news software will not handle it so 
UUENCODE is a must. Were I to post the source code to net.sources it would
be much bigger than the UUENCODED executable and would therefore cost 
even more to distribute. I do not distribute the source code over the net
for this reason.

   As far as automatically printing the news group may I suggest a short
shell script to check the sizes of the articles before printing them, this
is not too hard to do.

   If the readers of net.micro.pc feel that the distribution of executables
in uuencoded + arc format is inappropriate then speek up now or forever 
hold your peace. I guess if enough people do not like it we could start
up a news group net.binaries.uuu or some such thing.

   Peter Ashwood-Smith,
   Happy user of ARC, PC-SHELL, CONCH, COMPRESS,...etc.
   University of Toronto
   The Great White North.