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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: <13440.25fab8f5@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 04:45:41 GMT
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In article <13439.25fab7e3@max.u.washington.edu>, scott@max.u.washington.edu writes:
> 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
 
One other thing...to get CBM files checkout the FTP sites supporting
the CBM and also the Mail Servers, or checkout one of your local
CBM BBSs (I guess you probably knew these....)