Posting sources that work
Keith B. Petersen
w8sdz at brl-tgr.ARPA
Mon Oct 14 14:29:37 AEST 1985
It must certainly be possible with current technology to have
some automatic method of doing a checksum or crc check as one
"unshars". I remember seeing some postings which did this until
someone complained that their version of Unix didn't have the
necessary checksum program. It seems to me it would be a simple
matter to distribute such a program and require all net news sites
to make it available to users. As things stand now, one never knows
for sure if the submitted files are complete. I have had several
occasions recently where they were not. They did not exceed the
64k limit, so that wasn't the problem. Maybe it was the old bug
where if a new line started with a "." it was taken as end-of-file.
--Keith Petersen
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