Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Brad Willcott]

With all of the gripes going on about this subject, I afraid that, as the
system that I am using is UNIX, and it has : compress, uncompress, tar, shar,
unshar, uudecode, uuencode, and MOST important of all, it has 'nn', I don't
have any probloems with receiving these sorts of files.  Providing of cause
that there is a decent description attached to the posting header.
NN is the news reader/poster that I use.  The user interface is quit nice,
considering that I am only using VT100 terminals.  It allows me to EASILY :
unshar or decode a posting into its relevant files, in ANY directory I wish.
It will even create the directory for me if it dosen't already exist.

So I would suggest to everyone who might be having trouble, to get a copy
of these utilities, and 'nn', then we can finish this discussion here!

PS:  An additional suggestion, would be to install LHARC on your systems,
then we can send/receive even smaller files :-)

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