Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!introl!dworld!nic
From: nic@dworld.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
Summary: My $0.02 worth
Keywords: sometimes.the.filenames.are.just.too.lon.....
Message-ID: <496@dworld.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 16:50:46 GMT
References: <8805150334.AA27926@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: nic@dworld.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
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Organization: Discovery World: Museum of Science, Economics and Technology inc.
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	I guess I agree with the general concensus that all postings should
    have SHAR as their outer layer, binaries must be uuencoded, and I can
    even live with ARC or ZOO on sources.  The one thing that drives me
    crazy, however, is filenames > 13 chars.  I understand that many of you
    AmigaGods are using BSD machines, but unless someone wants to send me a
    free port of 4.3BSD for the AT&T 3b1, I'm stuck with the Sys V filename
    maxlen.  It can be a real pain in the ars when the only difference
    between several files in a set are in the end of a too long filename,
    ie: dnet.amiga.zoo.uu.aa
	dnet.amiga.zoo.uu.ab
	dnet.amiga.zoo.uu.ac
	dnet.amiga.zoo.uu.ac
    on my Sys V machine after doing an Unshar * in the dnet directory, I
    get:
	dnet.amiga.zoo

	This sort of thing happens far too often.  I find it handy to be
    able to unshar and uudecode and then ARC stuff on my news machine, at
    work, before transferring it at 1200 baud to my Amiga at home.
    Sometimes this can result in a time savings of a half hour or so when
    downloading a few days worth of stuff.

	While I'm at it, thanks for all the great software Matt!
    

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"You can't spend your history!"		Nic Bernstein
	Melinda Briggerty		Discovery World Museum
"... but you can sell it!"		818 W. Wisconsin av.
	Me				Milwaukee, WI 53233
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