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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
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Date: 15 May 88 03:34:00 GMT
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>USENET and UNIX people are familiar with the uuencode/uudecode.
>
>BBS users, Amiga Users' Groups, etc. are familiar with ARC and ZOO.

	Well I wouldn't put it quite that way... after all, you can't send
raw ARC or ZOO files over the USENET anyway... most people uuencode the
ARC/ZOO file and send that.  So no argument there.  You don't see uuencode
on BBS's because its sole purpose in life is to turn binaries into 
ascii-mailer-readable files, and that's just a waste of space on a BBS.

>But let's remember that MOST people have just ONE computer (and let's hope
>that it's an Amiga! :-), and said users WILL have ARC and ZOO readily
>available.

	Or can get them off just about any BBS, ARPA archive, or
sources/binaries group whenever they want!

				-Matt