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From: sean@ukma.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Retraction - don't ARC (was Re: Jtime.arc Posting)
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 09:52:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 09:52:38 1987
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In article <1968@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>I'm a believer now.  Don't ARC binaries.  Just uuencode them, and post that.

That may result in a few saved bytes for Usenet, but it will inconvenience a
lot of users.  ARC does two things: archiving and compressing.  For those that
use xmodem, they must download sources one file at a time.  With ARC, they
can do one transfer and get the whole mess.  AND it insures that file padding
will not invalidate an executable binary.

One must also consider that all sites do not send compressed news.  You
would save time for these sites by using ARCed files.

It's really up to the poster what format he wants to use.  If there's binaries,
or more that a couple of files, I'll probably arc sources.  I've downloaded
tons of files, and that's the format I'd rather see them in.  It also saves
time downloading from the Usenet host to my Amiga.


Sean
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