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- From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.lang.basic,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,announce,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.examples.vb4 , alt.binaries.examples.vcpp , alt.binaries.examples.java
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:41:41 -0500
- Organization: University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
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- balchen@sn.no wrote:
- >gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)'s cats typed:
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- >>So what's a binary example (not an example of a binary)
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- >It's an example program that in one way or another (usually by means of a
- >PKzip compatible zip'er) is transformed into binary file.
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- Sounds like it is source code. It is usually a bad idea to archive,
- compress, and encode source code for Usenet posting as it converts
- something that is human readable to something that is not human readable.
- There are ways of grouping text files together in a single extractable
- text archive without making them unreadable by humans.
- Comp.sources.apple2 uses one.
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- Alt.sources.* is also a recognized high-volume hierarchy, so it isn't like
- you'll be making rogue binary groups.
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