21 Jul
2020
21 Jul
'20
12:07 a.m.
On 7/20/20 12:52 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:25 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com
<mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
My questions for y'all are how would you go about doing this? Use
vi to delete everything through the ==== cut here line?
Yep
Nice, seemed easy enough to me, but I was expecting real Unix folks use
sed | awk | indent type answers.
It was so of. It was a way to send files around that
people could
easily execute and you new would work through 7-bit based email which
is all the SMTP guaranteed in the early days. Yeh but .. uucp was 8
yep. But some of the legs of the USENET were luck to be based on
Arpanet site, which might have had a mailer running BITNET. When shar
was created the 'least needed' style assumptions were used. As it
was it was often that people put tarballs, then compressed them and
then uuencoded them inside. Often a space savings and made it easier
-> compressed tar was pretty good, and even with the 3 8-bit chars as
4 6-bit chars of uuencode it will worked out well in practice.
Hmm... can't wait to run across all of these variants :).
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