Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
Greg Lindahl
gl8f at astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU
Thu Jul 12 09:22:17 AEST 1990
In article <987 at galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave at galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes:
> If you are concerned about your
>program being modified as it is transmitted through BITNET then make sure
>your source code is portable enough to withstand this.
This isn't easy, especially if you are distributing patches. This is
why comp.os.minix distributes patches as .tar.Z.uu's.
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