Re: FTP file formats

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>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.

> [..]

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com