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- From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Cwaves is still here
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:39:54 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- csbruce@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) writes:
-
- >wolfy@stein.u.washington.edu (Stephen) writes:
-
- >> To the general public: After seeing the dismal file selections that
- >>even the more popular FTP sites offer, I've decided to help out the Internet
- >>a little. I will be, in the next few weeks, sending many demos to this FTP
- >>site:
- >> ftp.cco.caltech.edu
- >>
- >> The demos will be zipped, and sometimes Lynxed. I may have a seperate
- >>directory on the system, but I have yet to talk with the individual who
- >>runs it. If you are reading this, please mail me.
-
- >The man you seek is "rknop@cco.caltech.edu", Rob Knop.
-
- >BTW, I may or may not be the only one, but I cannot stand all of those exotic
- >archiver formats. Do you think you could also upload your files in good ole
- >uuencoded format? If there are multiple files, concatenate their uuencoded
- >data together (a ".uua" archive). You can even include the instructions at
- >the top of such a file. See the file "ace-r5.uua" in the "INCOMING"
- >subdirectory at that site for an example.
-
- Um.
-
- First, on archive formats, I have to admit that I must agree with Craig that
- all of these "exotic" archiver formats do get tiresome. However: I disagree
- that uuencoding should be the archiver of choice. Here's the deal: we have
- two finite resources, space and time. There is a finite amount of space on
- the ftp site. People have a finite amount of time that they want to dedicate
- to transferring files. THUS: an archive that compresses is GREATLY preferred.
- This is why I don't like uuencoding, because that actally _expands_ the files
- being archived.
-
- As to Lynx: Lynx also does no compression, and thus is inferior on that count.
- Also, because there are so many different versions of Lynx out there is always
- some guesswork involved in getting the files dearchived. The fewer Lynxed
- files that show up on the ftp site, the happier I am.
-
- PROPOSED STADNARD(S): I would ask that anything anybody uploads which is
- longer than a few K be archived in .arc, .lzh, .sda, or .sfx format. The
- preferred one would probably be .sfx, since that is simple for people to
- disslve, and the same archive can be dissolved on botha 64 and a 128.
-
- .arc, NOT the MS-DOS .arc, but the C64/C128 .arc, is a stable and standard
- enough format that most anyone should be able to dissolve it, using either
- ARC-64 (which I will endeavor to get on the site) or CS-DOS (on the 128, which
- is already on ccosun).
-
- .sda's should come with a note specifying whether the .sda is for the 128 or
- for the 64.
-
- If people do this, it will take the guesswork out of dissolving files. Also,
- it will reduce the amount of space on the ftp site taken up by the C= files.
-
- As to uploading megs and megs of demos: I am already in contact with another
- person who wants to upload ca. 10 Megs of demos, and am making sure that I
- will remain in the good graces of the system folks here if the site grows that
- large. Email me before making any major uploades.
-
- If the site is going to get stacked with huge numbers of demos, we might have
- to leave them there for limited amounts of time, so that all the demos won't
- be up at once. Personally, I would like to see ample amounts of demos,
- applications, and the like, and not have them shoved out of the way by
- tremendous amounts of C64 demos.
-
- If anybody has stuff that they want to upload which isn't tremendously huge,
- feel free to do so, and drop me an Email message letting me know that you've
- done so.
-
- I've been quite busy in the last month, and thus haven't been able to keep up
- here on comp.sys.cbm or to keep the ftp site up to date, so right now there is
- a huge stack of stuff in INCOMING which I need to deal with. This will happen
- in good time....
-
- Thanks for your patience...
-
- -Rob
-