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From: bobd@fwi.uva.nl (Bob Diertens)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
Message-ID: <422@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 14 Feb 90 08:32:55 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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In article <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>The binaries that have appeared on c.b.i.p. have generally been UUencoded.
>What I would like to propose now is a general switch to XXencode. 
>
> .... some text skipped
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>One a side note - when c.b.i.p starts running again, which of the available
>file-compression utilities do the readers of the group want to be used ?
>ZOO and ZIP are obvious candidates, but there may be other possibilities.
>
>Any suggestions ? 
>
>Or maybe we should just leave the decision to the new moderator.

I don't care about which utilities are used, as long as they are posted
to the net.
Don't make these utilities available at some site, where most people
can't reach them (most people do not have ftp access).

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