Re: Grind Archive.

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Oct3.140733.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au>, Jeff Dyason writes...
> 
> [1]  Sumex-aim one of the big mac sites as all their files as binhex
> archives.

    Don't they also have 6 or 8 gigabytes of drive space?  Sumex is also
a tightly moderated site.  Only submissions through info-mac are
allowed.  You don't have every Mac owner and his/her brother uploading
files to the site.

> (2).	If possible it would be convenient for all file names to have only one
> 	period as I and probably other people do all my downloading through
> 	a VAX which only supports one period in file names. Once again
> 	Sumex-aim also supports this which makes it easier to use mget
> 	within ftp. The length is probably not too much of a problem but
> 	should be less than 30 characters.

    This shouldn't be much of a problem.  The use of dashes to separate
words in a filename is pretty much standard.  The one period can be used
to tack on the *.shk or whatever.  OTOH, it would be a good idea to
include the version number in a filename, and that requires a period.
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