Re: Grind Archive.

[cdeschu@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <1993Oct5.012942.6808@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:
>From article <1993Oct3.073313.14857@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, by cdeschu@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu):
>> In article <1993Oct3.140733.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au> jcd@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au (Jeff Dyason) writes:
>>>
>>>A few ideas on the Archive to be set up at grind.
>>>
>>>(1).	It is probably a good idea to have the files stored as binscii'd,
>>>	shrinkit archives, even though they take up more room than just
>>>	the compressed files, as it seems that there are quite a few
>>>	people out in netland who have trouble transferring binary images
>>>	via ftp. Also, this should make it pretty easy to set up a system
>   ... message deleted ...
>> 
>> I would say the solution is pretty obvious. Keep the files on the archive
>> as Binary II wrapped ShrinkIt files, to preserve the filetype information,
>> and conserve space. Then add an option to automagically binscii files as
>> they are being ftp'd. If ftp can automatically tar and compress files,
>> why not binscii as well? It's more work originally, but will have the 
>> most benifits to all in the long run. I have never set up an ftp site,
>> so I don't know exactly what is involved, but it seems doable. Comments?
>> 
>
>Re: automatic binscii'ing of files.  Doable.  Probably will be done if I
>can find the unix program to create binscii files.  I thought it was called
>'bsc' but I haven't seen it.  (Haven't looked real hard, either :-) )
>What is the program I'm looking for?  Also, it would need to send all segments
>in _one_ file to be useable with ftp get.  Or else only ftp mget could be
>used.
>
>Re: Binary II shrinkit files.  Yes, that is the obvious solution, but hardly
>anyone uploads binscii<-binaryII<-shrinkit files.  Almost everything to date
>is binscii<-shrinkit.  I need a sciibin which creates binaryII files around
>its contents (iff the contents aren't already a BinaryII file).  I don't
>think binscii,gscii,sscii etc. need this option because they run on AppleII's.
>
>I am _not_ going to download every cba2 file, de-binscii, BinaryII wrap, and
>upload, or re-binscii and upload.  I wouldn't wish that on any volunteer
>helpers either.  I would encourage people to start putting files in a BinaryII
>envelope before uploading to an archive site however.  If files stay as
>binscii files, it seems rather redundant though.  There is no one right
>solution, IMHO.
>
>  --Steven Nelson                 steven-nelson@uiowa.edu
>

Hmm, could you put a debinscii, blu and nulib together in  a shell script
to process the files as they come in?


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