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From: rdh@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
Message-ID: <12897@sun.uucp>
Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 21:39:15 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.12897
Posted: Sat Feb  7 21:39:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 01:41:52 EST
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Reply-To: rdh@sun.UUCP (Robert Hartman)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Keywords: file transfer formats, etc, etc.

In article <962@osiris.UUCP> mjranum@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum) writes:
>	To get to the point: I am an avid reader of comp.sources and
>other software related netgroups. One of the things that has on a few
>occasions had me frothing at the mouth is the incredible variety of
>different formats in which binaries and sources are posted. What I
>would like to suggest, since we are starting out afresh here, is that
>we establish a MINIX source/binary posting standard.

I agree with this, and also with John Gilmore about using shar as the
standard format.  There are many advantages to shar, most notably that
anyone can simply READ it.  Let's keep it as straightforward as possible.  -bob.