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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.admin
Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*
Summary: Let's adopt file compression with StuffIt
Message-ID: <699@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 17:44:26 GMT
References: <2689@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <2689@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> (much deleted...)
>
>ALL files distributed on COMP.BINARIES.MAC and COMP.SOURCES.MAC should be
>COMPRESSED before being HEXED.  The (intermediate) compressed file should
>have a name consisting of ASCII-characters only so that xbin can be used to
>unhexify the article on the mainframe in order to reduce the download time.
>
> (etc.)

Yes, an excellent suggestion.  It's crazy to have 10 part files posted in
comp.binaries.mac when file compression can reduce those down to 50-60% of
that size.

And while we're at it, perhaps a standard program for doing the
packing/compression ought to be adopted.  Ray Lau's StuffIt is the obvious
choice.  Though still with an aoccasional bug, StuffIt is certainly stable
enough to use for mere stuffing/unstuffing of files.  StuffIt has certainly
become the standard on the GEnie, CIS and other Mac sections, so why not here
too?  Besides, Ray Lau only requests a shareware fee if one uses StuffIt for
encoding/archiving purposes.  Otherwise, it is considered a freebie: all the
more reason to adopt it as a standard on this system.

Jim

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