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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: SOMETIMES POST COMPRESSED UUENCODED
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Date: 27 Mar 89 17:04:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 27 11:04:00 1989



}DONT POST UUENCODED COMPRESSED STUFF. 
}
}Compress gets run on most stuff crossing the net,

There is a problem with all this "compressed" "uuencoded"
"otherwise not plain text" stuff: Not everybody can read it. I
have gone to a lot of trouble to collect all the arcane programs
necessary to get everything (even plain ascii text) back 
into a happy state on my base machine.

We need a STANDARD SET of these things, which must be READILY
available for all common computers. (Minimum: Portable Unix source,
VMS, MS-DOS, Mac OS, Amiga, ...). The problem is not the existence
or proprietaryness, but just finding out where to get them.
There should be pointers posted occasionally, stuck at the
top of archive lists, etc., to them. 

Specific question: the version of compress I have runs only on
my 386 machine. I saw a full 16 bit one that runs of a regular PC -
but can't find it now. Any pointers? A friend with a poor 286 needs it.

Doug McDonald