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From: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Sir Dave of Wentworth)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Source ARCs are inappropriate!
Keywords: If you want play, you've got to pay the piper!
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Date: 29 Oct 88 14:54:55 GMT
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Reply-To: draper@bu-tyng.UUCP (Sir Dave of Wentworth)
Organization: Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro, MA
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Hello all,

I'm not sure which is the way to go. ARC files will all the files in them
make life quite easy. Shar files with the source would make a lot of
sense if we had a source group for pcs. I think the average person who
has a pc and uses the net should have the ability to handle the information
passed over the net no matter what format it is in. There are plenty
of pd programs around for unsharing and uudecodeing files. If anybody
dosen't have them then send email to me. I have several nice versions of
uuencode/decode and shar programs. I have source for all of them also if
you're of those persons that dosen't trust binaries. 

There was quite a discussion about the merits of a newsgroup for msdos
sources about 6 months ago. I would like to re-open that discussion.
I propose that we discuss the idea of creating a group that would
fall along the lines of: comp.sources.dos
I think with all the trojans and viruses going around these days we need
this group mokre than ever right now.

Dave



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