Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: QRT 1.5 Message-ID: <11332@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 24 Mar 89 22:44:45 GMT References: <4130002@hpfelg.HP.COM> <1610@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 26 In article <1610@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >AARRGGH!!! > >The four QRT postings took up 76K, 26K, 35K, and 80K in my >spool directory -- four postings. > >When I ran uudecode and uncompress I got 200K, 61K, 61K, and 174K; >this could have fit in eight postings, and I WOULD HAVE HAD SOURCE >TO READ without doing all that work. > >Major bummer, major mistake. What mistake? The files uudecoded, uncompressed, and untarred ok. It only took 4 postings instead of 8. There was source code included. It took me about two minutes to dearchive everything. Is that a lot of work for a free ray-tracer? I don't get it. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Who sometimes never learns. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``Freedom is the ability to say 2+2=4. Given that, all else follows.''