Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!iesd!kjeld From: kjeld@iesd.auc.dk (Kjeld Flarup) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Encoding and compression for cbip (Was: xx vs. uu) Keywords: unix Message-ID: <1990Feb19.172540.17518@iesd.auc.dk> Date: 19 Feb 90 17:25:40 GMT References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3702@uafhp.uark.edu> <2408@cpsc6a.att.com> Reply-To: kjeld@iesd.auc.dk (Kjeld Flarup) Organization: Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 18 I find it important that it should be possible to do an automatic unpacking of cbip on a unix system. If anyone want's to change the way how to transport, I would strongly suggest that a way follows of how to unpack the whole thing. uuencode and zoo is known to run on unix, thus these are ok. If someone want's to change it is thus nessecary to post the sources of the programs used. But many sites use special scipts to do the work. These also has to be modified to run again. Before changing anything, it should be assured that a package for unpacking is available to all users. In this case there is no problems. -- * I am several thousand pages behind my reading schedule. * Kjeld Flarup Christensen kjeld@iesd.auc.dk