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Message no. 1
From: MALONE99@********
Subject: NAGGEE part 2 Why is it in IBM format???
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 92 00:53:00 EST
Hi, I just tried to get the NAGEE volume 2 and it's in IBM format (.zip)
What i'm wondering is why someone would write it using a Macintosh and save it
in IBM format... Could someone please post it in text, binhex format or some
other Macintosh format? I would like to read it, and i'm sure others must have
had the same problem. Thanks in advance.
Tim (malone99@********.bitnet)
Message no. 2
From: 'Evil' ERic Mehlhaff <mehlhaff@***.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: Re: NAGGEE part 2 Why is it in IBM format???
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 92 19:42:28 PDT
MALONE99%SNYBUFVA.BITNET@****.Berkeley.EDU recently wrote:


>Hi, I just tried to get the NAGEE volume 2 and it's in IBM format (.zip)
>What i'm wondering is why someone would write it using a Macintosh and save it
>in IBM format... Could someone please post it in text, binhex format or some
>other Macintosh format? I would like to read it, and i'm sure others must have
>had the same problem. Thanks in advance.
> Tim (malone99@********.bitnet)
>
I find it highly annoying when anything is distributed in an odd
format. How bout those poor sods that still have to use some way outdated
machines? C64's, for example.
Zip'd isn't that bad, since unzip has been ported far and wide.
It's still not good. Compressed/tar'd ascii would have been far better.

I mean geeze! If you really want to make life hard on us, why not
encrypt it too?!

ERic mehlhaff, mehlhaff@***.Berkeley.EDU
I _am_ amused. Really!

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