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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ABE Source (Part 1/3) & introduction
Message-ID: <534@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 14:54:57 GMT
References: <100765@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <100765@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

| Normally, I would post source in a shar, but as an experiment, I arc'd the
| source together into abe.arc and am posting the 3 part ABE2 encoding of
| that file.  What use is that?  

  Normally I would unpack a shar with "|(cd ~/tmp;unshar)" directly from
the news reader. Now I get to move a bunch of parts to a directory,
extract parts with an editor, compile unpacking programs... then I can
take it apart with arc, to get what would have fit nicely in a little
shar.

  Sometimes people get carried away with cleverness, and this looks like
one. People on the net understand shar format, and have tools they like
to handle it. You have managed to post both source and binary in a
discussion group in one swell foop, and in two unusual formats!
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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