Re: FTP file formats

[ba06103@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Tiny Death)]

 In a previous article <fmlinCM0vtK.GyL@netcom.com>, 
  fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) might have mumbled:
 
 -=- >I know ASCII is the default mode for FTP (which is bad bad bad usually)
 -=- >
 -=- >What I am complaining about is all the extra steps it takes to unpack
 -=- > a program.  Even in the unlikely event that the larger binscii'd or
 -=- > exec'd files are faster to download, you (or at least I) lose that
 -=- > time having to run binscii, basic.system and exec, or whatever else
 -=- > the arcane format requires.
 -=- 
 -=- My opinion is to keep grind .bxy and .shk only too.  For people who
 -=- need them in binsciii format, I can mail to them.  It would be nice
 -=- if Brian do a binmail.  :-)  Then grind would save lots of space,
 -=- and it would also be easier to navigate and admin.
 -=- 
 -=- > [..]
 -=- 
 -=- -- 
 -=- frank m. lin
 -=- fmlin@netcom.com


	Well there is a UNIX binscii program. Why not just use that if
you
really need SHK files to be in BINSCIIed form.

	It's up on one of those FTP sites.


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