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- From: balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.)
- 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: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:59:37 GMT
- Organization: Innocent Software
- Message-ID: <4l601k$8uq@hasle.sn.no>
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- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)'s cats typed:
-
- >Sounds like it is source code.
-
- Probably is too.
-
- >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.
-
- The entire point is to save bandwidth when you post large files. If you zip
- them and uuencode them, you'll usually save lots of space. You're reasons
- for dislikeing things unreadable to humans escapes me. Usually, everything
- that's stored on a disk is unreadable to humans, so you should be used to
- the idea.
-
- Jens (balchen@sn.no)
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