Date   : Fri, 29 May 1992 12:31:49 BST
From   : I Stephenson <ian@...>
Subject: Re: 'Posting' software

>I sugest the best way would be to perhaps either to use the  
>newcastle mail server, someone with enought
>authority and disc space, ie not students! 


We should have more than enough disc space here (we're about to get  
4Gig of extra space, betweeen about 6 people!). Stuff can be ftp'd to
shiraz.ohm.york.ac. This assumes everyone has ftp access - I probably  
won't be able to provide a mail server.

As for the format, it would porobably be best if the stuff is tar'd  
and compressed, as this is pretty much the standard format for ftp  
sites. Of course this means that you can't extract it on a bbc  
(unless you know different), but I don't suppose anyone is going to  
be ftping dirrectly onto an 8-bit. Everything is goping to have to be  
staged though a Unix/VMS(/Dos?) machine so there shouldn't be that  
muchof a problem.

I've put a copy of tcc on there, and a list of all the people on the  
list, with details of interests ad hardware.

Some decent font software would be excelent. The graphics explosion  
was not forseen in the original Acorn vision of things, and support  
for fonts (particularly getting more stuff on screen at once,  
proportionaly spaced, in windows etc) was overlooked.

Ian