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From: Tim Blair <codex@phoenix4.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [NEW] headache.ANS  <- Please Repost!   -Why not start a ANSI
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Date: 1996/06/21
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In article <4qdtfd$k7a@news.express.co.nz>
           mal@iprolink.co.nz "Malcolm Smith" writes:

 > cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) wrote:
 > 
 > >>Nope it wouldn't because it would all have to be UUencoded...ANSI
 > >characters don't travel well across the Net...like Control Codes
 > >and Escape Codes !  ANSI works OK on local BBSs.
 > >
 > But if its just in a .ZIP file it should be ok shouldnt it?

Yeah, but you'd still have to UUencode it to be able to post it.  And what's
the point of compressing something, then converting it, over and over?  Anyway,
there are ftp sites for .zip files...

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