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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: More silence in comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <8478@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 89 17:42:22 GMT
References: <8472@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2487@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <2487@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>Since when has the combine script become "lazy"?  A long time ago a better
>combine script was posted.  It works much nicer, especially on programs with
>MANY parts.  Who wants to type in the names of all 11 pieces :-)

Maybe I'm missing something, but the good old "combine" script

     cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d'| uudecode

does happily accept usage like

     combine part*

provided the parts are numbered in sequence, and will happily combine
and extract all of them.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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