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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Source ARCs are inappropriate!
Message-ID: <1031@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 88 00:36:07 GMT
References: <7119@dasys1.UUCP> <4458@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <4458@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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|Disadvantages of source in clear text format:
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|o    Clear text takes more disk space for storage.
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Yabut... it's going to be uuencoded arc'd text which is usu. bigger
(or close to the same size as) the clear text... if you can tell machines
to uudecode it after sending it, then it'll take less space, but it will
still take approximately the same space using the current software.

  Bill
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