Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!philabs!ttidca!clark
From: clark@ttidca.TTI.COM (Ralph Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Thanks, I'd rather ... Part 2
Message-ID: <2288@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 88 01:44:47 GMT
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
Lines: 22
Keywords: KISS, vanilla, please

Now, in addition to the self-extracting ARCs, we are blessed with a
posting containing self-returning carriages, closely followed by a
much appreciated tool to delete the generously embedded carriage returns.

Who is supposed to be the audience of this group?  Postings of DOS text
files, and self-extracting archives, seem to be useful only to those
who read this newsgroup while running DOS. I would have thought that the
vast majority of readers of this group are reading it under UNIX, and
would prefer to receive postings in a form that can be examined, maybe
by arc -t or arc -v, and then downloaded to a DOS machine using a comm
program that does NL -> CR/LF translation where appropriate.  DOS text
files within ARCs seem to be handled correctly on UNIX by the UNIX arc -p.

Personally, I'd rather see vanilla postings, with no favors done. I have
enough standard, generally available UNIX and DOS tools to get the stuff
from a VAX to my PC Jr.

-- 
Ralph Clark (clark@TTI.COM)
Citicorp(+)TTI
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (213) 452-9191, x2965
Santa Monica, CA  90405 {csun|philabs|psivax|trwrb}!ttidca!clark