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- Guide to Submissions to c.b.i.p.
- Bill Davidsen, revised 9/18/90
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- Object
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- The object of this document is to save submitters and me time
- processing their submissions to c.b.i.p.
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- Scope
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- The preferred and accepted methods of submitting to c.b.i.p. are
- described. General guidelines for content and handling are given.
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- Preferred Format
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- The best format for a submission is as a uuencoded zoo archive,
- mailed to ibmbin@crdgw1.crd.ge.com with a clear description of what the
- program does. If the encoded file is >50k (or so), it may have to be
- broken into parts for mailing safty. In that case please generate a
- subject line which looks like this:
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- myprog (01/07) run Amiga progs on PC
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- This means that when my mail reader shows me the first 40 characters of
- the subject I know what it is, and the reader will sort the parts back
- into order if they get shuffled by the mailers.
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- Other formats
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- I can handle zip, arc, and lharc archives with minimal pain, and have
- processed multipart shar files of binaries produced by the shar2 and
- shar3 programs.
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- Please *AVOID* self unpacking executables, since I can't virus check
- them before unpacking. This means I have to have a system with a hard
- disk totally backed up and ready for a low level format if needed. This
- means I don't process these too often, and if I get a virus that blows a
- few hours while I recover.
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- Please avoid encoding with a "better" encoder, I have automated
- programs to check and unpack stuff in the expected format.
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- What not to Send
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- Don't send GIF pictures (I collect them but don't post them),
- commercial software, old out of date versions, etc. If you wouldn't pay
- to download it from a BBS, most people will not want to pay to send it
- around the world.
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- Order of Processing
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- In general first come first served. Submissions which require a lot
- of extra work (self unpacking archives, for example) may be procesed
- slowly. Things like virus checkers and recovery programs have time
- value and may be posted as soon as I get them. If I request someone
- send me a program that program will go into the queue as if it arrived
- when I asked for it. This is courtesy to the people who package stuff
- for us.
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- Submissions mailed to me at any of my personal addresses may be
- delayed, since I have to forward them. They have been known to be lost,
- although not deliberately, since some of these machine implement a
- limit on the size of a user mail file, or user mail messages. They
- *will* be entered into the queue as of the time they arrive at ibmbin.
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- Questions
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- Send to ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com if you want to know if I have
- something, if you want to hold up something in the queue for an update,
- etc.
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- Reposts
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- I can't mail copies of posting to everybody. If you need an article
- post to c.b.i.p.d and if I have time I'll get back to you.
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- Submissions: ibmbin@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (uunet!crdgw1!ibmbin)
- Questions and comments:
- ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (uunet!crdgw1!ibmbin-request)
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