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From: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: How to make newsletter available
Keywords: Spectre, GCR, newsletter, Gadgets, Dave, Small
Message-ID: <15994@well.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 09:21:09 GMT
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Okay, those who know more about the 'net and UUCP and FTP than I.
(This should narrow the field by approximately 1%).

	 We're putting the finishing touches on the next Gadgets
newsletter, and I'd like to make it available online here in some
fashion. It's way too long to just post, unless I broke it into
32K pieces (I believe 32K is the UUCP limit; I've run into it
elsewhere moving files Well <-> Gadgets machine), and look, by far
not everyone here has a Spectre unit nor cares, *and*, it goes
against my grain to more-or-less advertise this way.

	Still, I'd like some easy way for net users to be able to 
download the newsletter from somewhere.

	FTP: I know nothing about FTP. I have no man page for FTP,
no FTP on either my 7300 or the more generic UNIX machine. If someone
is willing to act as an FTP site for the newsletter, and for Doug
Wheeler's much improved GCR disk tester, for downloading, I'd be happy
to send them along, however is needed. Email me here
(dsmall@well.sf.ca.us) if interested.

	UUCP: I suppose I could set up my 7300 for UUCP'ing the stuff
across; that'd mean a call for you.

	EMAIL: I could probably break the newsletter into <32K segments
and email it upon requests, but this would get old pretty fast, as
you can imagine. Also, I've had bad luck with email bouncing back to me.
I'd really prefer not to do this unless there's no other way.

	So, if you would, please educate me on how I can make this available
to you with minimum hassles to us both, and without having to publicly post
it; same goes for Doug's GCR Tester program.

	Finally, Doug has also written a truly excellent pageprinter program
for the SLM-804. It outputs your text in form suitable for 8 1/2 x 11 3-ring
binding, double sided, with easy directions to do the double siding. The
result is 4 pages of text reduced on to 1 physical page doublesided, set up
to easily "flip", so facing pages keep continuity. It's currently shareware
on GEnie and is just excellent; if nothing else, it saves a heck of a lot
of paper. Check it out -- it's really nice.

	It's no problem for me to post the newsletter to CIS or GEnie; I know
enough to fumble by there (and fumble I do). Here, I don't have the knowledge
to make a good fumble of it even.

	If you could email instead of replying here, it'd waste less bandwidth..

	-- thanks, Dave / Gadgets by Small

p.s. Would anyone care for a *brief* 2.5 features list as a post? Would that
be an acceptable compromise?