Re: Administrivia - archive update
Rob Zook 
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:13:56 -0500

At 09:53 AM 7/13/98 -0500, Randall Raemon wrote:
>
>I finally got the list message archive updated, thru article 516
>as of a few minutes ago.
>
>The archive is available by ftp at
>
>   ftp://dmz,shikahr,com,inter,net/pub/linguistics
>
>There is no README file to explain the directory setup, so here's
>the details.
>
>There are two subdirectories, one called "zip" and one called >"uuencoded".
>The zip directory contains messages that are grouped together and
>compressed with the Unix based Info-ZIP package, which is supposedly
>compatible with other platforms, notably PC-based systems.
>
>>From experience, the zip file compression has been found to flat out
>freeze some PC-based TCP/IP stacks. TCP/IP is supposed to be a data
>transparent protocol. That's what the Internet is built on. Rather than
>force someone to have to get a new TCP/IP stack, each *,zip file has
>been encoded in an ASCII text, using the Unix standard uuencode program.
>These encoded files are in the "uuencoded" directory. 

Does this occur if you gzip them? You can get gzip for most Unices, and
I know that WinZip at least can read gzip'd archives.


Rob Z.
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