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Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu



In article <1993Sep26.222242.8021@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, Steven Nelson writes...
> 
> Most comments to date seem to indicate small segments are excess
> garbage. Am I reading that right?  Be semi-blunt, if need be.  As I
> predicted, no one has spoken up to defend the smaller files.

    I personally vote for ShrinkIt files only.  I can see how bite-sized
segments would be useful if grind can honour FTPmail requests (does it?).
Another idea might be to add an on-the-fly Binscii'er to the FTP server
software, but that sounds difficult to do.
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Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 17 lines, v.32bis)
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Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 17 lines, v.32bis)
::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto, 9T4)