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From: rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Richard K. Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: comp.binaries.amiga shar files are ANNOYING !
Message-ID: <4715@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Apr 89 13:37:53 GMT
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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I just want to raise a small objection to the format of the postings to
comp.binaries.amiga. Not everyone uses UNIX to unpack/download binaries
(I'm sure that VMS is a very popular alternative) and hence not everyone
has access to shar.
   My point is that every line of the latest Amiga uuencoded binaries is
preceded by an 'X' (which is automatically stripped if you run it through
shar). If you are used to concatenating parts into one big uuencoded file,
then it's a REAL PAIN to strip the leading X off each line. The old system
didn't use to do this and I was happy with the minimal effort required to
concatenate files...please, please remove the X's !!!!!

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