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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
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Date: 20 May 88 18:43:02 GMT
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In article <1764@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>In <9037@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>Binaries should be UUENCODED and not
>>ARCed or ZOOed, at least in general since EVERYBODY has uuencode/uudecode
>>(on both UNIX and Amiga)...
>
>Whatcha gonna do with Amiga binaries on your Unix machine Marco?

Download them.  With kermit in binary mode, of course.  I do it all the
time.  It's faster....less bytes to move.  Makes a big difference at 1200
baud.  Also, uudecode is faster on a Sun 3 than on my Amy.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>