Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: A moderator for Binaries
Keywords: A vote for Rahul--win one for Dhesi
Message-ID: <23699@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 88 19:48:16 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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I vote for Rahul for moderator of BINARIES.  A moderator is 
badly needed and Rahul would make a great contribution as well
as bring some discipline to postings.

I vote against his ZOO as the archiving program for two reasons,however.  

1) The SEA and PK versions of ARC are used by nearly every BBS and 
most other nets in the country. 2) I, as many others, have dozens of 
floppies devoted to archives using SEA and PK ARC.

ZOO is a fine idea, but unfortunately it is not a widespread standard.
I understand that SEA's ARC has been ported to Unix and PK's ARC can
turn off "squashing", so why not use ARC?  After all, except to look
at the documentation, the code is not useful on most Unix systems.  
Futhermore, there are probably many people on this net who don't 
even operate under Unix.

Besides, the moderator should include in the posting a description 
of the program, what it is used for, and any special requirements 
(EGA, VGA, MS windows, utility to 123, etc.)  With this information we 
can decide whether to download.

Unix SHAR has been mentioned as a means for handling the 
documentation tasks in program postings, and some have entered the
objection that PC's could not manage this.  There are PC versions
of unshar (I would be happy to email my copy if anyone needs it).

Forrest Gehrke