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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Where Can I get PD/Share for CBM in IBM format
Message-ID: <13439.25fab7e3@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 04:41:07 GMT
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In article <14650@cbnews.ATT.COM>, awg@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.w.gaunt) writes:
> I am running a BBS and would like to support some Commodore file areas.
> There are other BBS's in my areas that would like to do so.
> I no longer have a CBM machine though.
>
> Where can I get alot of PD/Shareware stuff ?
> Does anyone have any stuff they can cpio or zip and uuto to me ?
>
> Andrew Gaunt
> awg@attsb.att.com
 
There is no need for CBM files to be archive in IBM format. CBM files
(either binary or ascii) can be saved on a IBM hard/disk drive with
no problem. The only thing is that to run a CBM program you need a CBM
machine.                                
If you are asking the files to be (ibm) ZIPed (C64 has their own ZIP)
inorder to save disk space, I think this will be a great inconvinience
for CBM users since their will be needing to upload it to an IBM to
un-ZIP and then re-download it to the CBM. And also CBM files are
not ususally that humongous to warrant size reduction.
 
 
Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen