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Virus checking on.. Re: Grind Archive.



taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>    You can skip the slow download/upload part if you have the right
>tools on your UNIX box.  I always feed comp.binaries.apple2 postings
>through sciibin using trn's pipe command.  The resulting files can then
>be BinaryII-wrapped (using the proposed b2 utility) and FTP'ed directly
>to grind.  It takes a few minutes a day to do this.  Since I already
>download every cba2 file anyway, I could take care of this section if
>someone writes the 'b2' utility.

   As long as I spent the time on the utility, we might as well give the
archive maintainers the Unix version of the Virus checker Morgan Davis
let me write for the ill-fated comp.binaries.apple2 moderation attempt.
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