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From: rlk@athena.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS NRO (an 'NROFF'- 'RNO'-like Source in C) (arc'ed)
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 12:22:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 12:22:20 1987
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Could I make a simple request?

This comes up every few months, a posting of source code in some "arc"
format.  Not all of us have arc programs, and not everyone who does
has the same one.  I realize that arc'ing reduces the size of a
posting to some degree, but it makes life very difficult for those of
us who do not have the appropriate utilities.

While I don't use MS-DOS, the concept of a PD nroff program is very
interesting, and if I ever need to use a DOS machine and want to nroff
something that I download from a UNIX machine, I might want this.

Another disadvantage of this technique is that if a byte gets garbled
somewhere in the posting, then the whole file will be garbaged.  If a
byte gets garbled in a cleartext posting, then I can fix it with
minimal difficulty.

Robert^Z