UUCP multi-hops clarification

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To all the folks responding via net and mail concerning my multi-hop
UUCP transfers:  Thanx!  Unfortunately, the concensus was to send the
source file.  This is fine for items where the source file exists; in
the case of pacman, I found it laying on my uucppublic doorstep with
nary a source in sight.  I am more concerned about the general case
of an archive or a cpio-packed file.  In the past I have first dumped
the file into hex or octal and sent that.  This gets TREE-MENDOUSLY
long in some cases, obviously.  There really should be an agreed-on
way to transfer files just like mail, no?