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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ARC for Unix
Message-ID: <162@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 88 14:47:30 GMT
References: <9209@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends
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Robert L Sillett (spectre@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP) writes:
> Well, someone asked for arc for Unix.  I don't know if this
> will run on every Unix system, but it works on mine.  As far
> as I can tell, this is also 100% compatible with pkarc old
> and NEW methods.
> begin 700 arc
[...]
> end

Well, I never thought I'd see the day.  Wow, what a treat!  A uuencoded
Ultrix a.out file!  No, it will not run on every Unix system.  It will
run on a very small number of Unix systems.  Part of the reason why most
Unix systems have a C compiler available is so that people can share
SOURCE code and compile it for their own systems.  That is why there
is no comp.binaries.unix or comp.unix.binaries newsgroup.  Since it
turned out that this was an Ultrix a.out (by looking at strings in it
after uudecoding it), this isn't even a binary for PCs or a program
that will help more than a handful of people deal with binaries for
PCs.  The source for UNIX arc was recently posted.  There is no reason
for posting binaries of it.  I'm sure that relatively few of you would
be interested in the a.out of arc from my SVR3 68020 system.  Let's
give a bit more thought to our postings.

I almost sent this as mail, but figured that if there was one person
out there, there'd probably be others.  We don't want UNIX BINARIES!

Thanks.
P.S.  Robert, have your site administrator fix your software so that
the ".UUCP" doesn't get tacked onto your domain in the Reply-To field.
It's a simple change to rn's Pnews command.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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