Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!hart From: hart@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: info-dec-micro-FILES Message-ID: <8905260529.AA18850@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL> Date: 26 May 89 05:29:18 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 [] I was very glad to see the announcement on Info-dec-micro-FILES. Two remarks: (1) How does one request files by MAIL ? Is there an automatic server ? What is the syntax of the commands ? (2) I see that everything is ZIP'ed. There is one disadvantage to ZIP vs. ARC : There are no ZIP programs on the mainframe. I prefer to unpack everything on the mainframe first, and then download to the Rainbow only what is needed. Digests, for example, remain on the mainframe. The ZIP format will require me to transfer them to the Rainbow, unzip, arc, transfer to to the mainframe, and unarc! So I suggest using (PK)ARC compression until there are more ZIP implementations available. --Sergiu Hart-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIL: School of Mathematical Sciences Tel-Aviv University 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel E-MAIL: hart@taurus.bitnet, hart@math.tau.ac.il, hart%math.tau.ac.il@cunyvm.cuny.edu, hart%taurus.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu, hart%taurus.bitnet@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu, hart%taurus.bitnet@cnuce-vm.arpa ---------------------------------------------------------------------