Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Greg Lindahl]

In article <987 at galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave at galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes:

>  If you are concerned about your
>program being modified as it is transmitted through BITNET then make sure
>your source code is portable enough to withstand this.

This isn't easy, especially if you are distributing patches. This is
why comp.os.minix distributes patches as .tar.Z.uu's.

--
"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein