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- From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: [col80.arc (1/1)], and binary etiquette
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- Date: 6 Sep 92 17:03:00 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:53 EDT
- From: BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL!bruck@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Itay Chamie1)
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- Here is the final version of Col80...
-
- Please don't post binaries here. This point has been beaten to death
- many times in the past; if you post binaries, they end up in the digest,
- and digest subscribers end up canceling their subscriptions, because
- they don't want to wade through it all.
- John
- Dunning seems to have disappeared...
-
- That's not true. As I've told Itay at least 3 or 4 times in email, I've
- been completely snowed under at my "real" job, and haven't had time to
- do much other than that lately. I've just now spent a few hours
- untangling the stuff that had accumulated in the new/ subdirectory, and
- putting it in what I believe are the right places, so you can stop
- worrying, everything is now safely in the archives.
-
- As long as we're on the topic, I might as well say a few words about how
- to make everybody's life easier when sticking binaries in the archives.
- The best possible submission is one that's collected up in an ARC, with
- all its sources, docs etc included, and some kind of blurb or something
- describing what it is and where it should go in the archives. Why?
- Well an ARC is relatively compact, and can be examined and manipulated
- on a variety of platforms. That means I can see what's in it, and test
- that it's intact, without having to download the thing to my atari. The
- blurb/doc helps a lot, because it gives me a hint about where to put it
- in the archives, as well as something to put in the catalog listing.
-
- If you've got a new version, or a bugfix, or something like that, please
- say so, so I'll know to update/replace the old version. If you've got
- an intermediate version, say so, so that I can tell it's experimental,
- and not delete the good copy.
-
- Obviously those rules don't apply in every single instance; you might
- have something that needs to be a disk image, and thus needs to be
- packaged as a DCM file or something. Or it might be too big, so you
- have to split it up. But give it a try.
-
- What, you say, that Dunning character is being a junior fascist again,
- and dictating to us what hoops we have to jump through before he'll
- deign to put things in the archive for us? Well, if you choose to look
- at it that way, it's up to you. I submit, though, that there's another
- way to look at it. I've got limited time to devote to this effort, and
- the harder you make it for me to figure out what's what, the less
- inclined I am to try. The more you help me out, the better shape the
- archive will be in. Please folks, we're all supposed to be on the same
- side here.
-