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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:02:19 -0800
Organization: Not Very Much
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
cangel@famvid.com wrote:
> The filenames are a bit of a puzzle, the archive formats are an absurdity,
> and when I try to politely ask what the reason(s) are for this I get a
> reply from Captain Kermit?
The 'archive' formats are the way they are because they are not source
archives. They are holdovers from a time when it was necessary to
bootstrap Kermit onto a machine using an ascii transfer over a (usually)
dialed up connection. There was no World Wide Web in those days and ftp
was often not available.
.boo (bootstrap) files were a way to get a working kermit binary over a
comm line. Sometimes the binary was packaged with some documentation
and an initialization file in a .zip archive and that was what was .boo
encoded. This is the nature of the 'archive' you saw.
> I don't recall seeing your name mentioned as one of the programmers nor do
> I recall being told there was a moderator of this newsgroup. Are you the
> president of the kermit fanclub or just some suckup looking for brownie
> points?
Is it that important who I am? If you had read this newsgroup for any
length of time, you would have seen my name before. As I see it as a
reader of this group, everyone was polite and patient with your
questions until you started getting abusive. Maybe you didn't get the
answers you wanted. Maybe the answerers didn't understand your
questions. Maybe it didn't occur to them that you thought some .boo
file was a source archive. I tried to be helpful in my previous post.
Did you read any of the information I pointed to? Or did you just focus
on my implication that you were whining?
--
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan