Awe13.147 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!houxe!lime!we13!rjk Mon Feb 1 08:38:55 1982 UUCP multi-hops clarification To all the folks responding via net and mail concerning my multi-hop UUCP transfers: Thanx! Unfortunately, the concensus was to send the source file. This is fine for items where the source file exists; in the case of pacman, I found it laying on my uucppublic doorstep with nary a source in sight. I am more concerned about the general case of an archive or a cpio-packed file. In the past I have first dumped the file into hex or octal and sent that. This gets TREE-MENDOUSLY long in some cases, obviously. There really should be an agreed-on way to transfer files just like mail, no? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.