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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: SPL Binary
Message-ID: <819@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 12:37:33 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.819
Posted: Sun Nov  2 12:37:33 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 00:34:32 EST
References: <419@uwmacc.UUCP> <845@gould9.UUCP>
Reply-To: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker)
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Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <845@gould9.UUCP> rob@gould9.UUCP (rob) writes:
>In article <419@uwmacc.UUCP>, anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:
>> Did anybody else pick up SPL from Dennis Baer (...!helm!dlbaer)?
>> I did, and I'm having a problem I don't understand. I hope someone

>	O.K. I had to try this sol too,,, my copy which i downloaded 
>twice showed manual,picture,and some other file as having bad sector 
>info,,,,But The WORST part was I had to get a binary file from the 
>WRONG!!!!! place, why can't people put thier files (binary) in net-       
>.sources or in whatever category they belong in....I can only assume
>from the posting and the defensiveness on the part of the poster that
>he was an amateur and lacked proper netiquette....Well I suppose I
>have flamed him enough for his lack of whatever he is missing....
>	And by the way the file reached more than one sit screwed
>up I downloaded from two separate sites and got the exact byte-
>counts and messages each time.....Amateurs!!!
>
>	In hopes this will tee off the 
>		proper people --- Netiquette!
>			
>			Thanks for your time..

Maybe I am missing something here, but why in hell are you trying to flame
the guy who posted the program ? If a program does not reach your site or
if it reaches there all mangled up, it is **not** the fault of the poster.
I had absolutely NO PROBLEM with cat'ing the 5 parts and downloading to my
PC. It works like a charm. I know for a fact that a lot of people have
problems in getting programs off the net to work, simply because they don't
do it right. Some don't strip off ALL the header and footer lines, some
don't use a binary protocol when downloading and some don't read instructions
of ARC or maybe just have a bad ARC program.

As for posting binaries to the net. There is no **right** newgroup for posting
binaries, because there is no net.pc.binaries or mod.pc.binaries. Please
DO NOT post binaries to net.sources which is exclusively for sources. Till 
a pc.bianries newgroup is created, we will have to live with binary postings
to net.micro.pc.



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