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From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
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Subject: Making ports of usenet sources
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:45:27 +1100
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Greetings,

I am wanting to do ports for some software in the comp.sources ftp 
archive. Mostly the sources are stuck together in shell archives (as 
I'm sure you already know :->) and my question is:

Would it be considered acceptable to download the shell archive, 
unpack it and compile it (etc)?? Or should I create a separate tar file 
with the sources in it and upload that also??? 

This question could also be extended to ports of software from the 
CTAN archive which just has all the source files sitting in a 
directory. 

Any ideas/guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks, Joel...
:->