Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM
Fri Dec 28 20:38:44 AEST 1990
In article <MEISSNER.90Dec28123513 at curley.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
>On the other hand, ever since I've switched to compress + uuencode +
>shar for shipping out large sets of patches, I've had fewer people
>complain about news/mail trashing the file or subsequent patches
>failing, since some 'helpful' intermediary decided to put a newline in
>column 79, or change tabs to spaces, or....
This is not surprising at all, since the overwhelming urge on seeing one
of these massive little goobers is to 'K' the whole posting rather than
slog through unpacking it and possibly finding problems...
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"How can a man of integrity get along /// Tom Neff
in Washington?" -- Richard Feynman /// tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM
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