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From: David Schuetz, Technical Services Consultant
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Combine script (was Re: More silence in comp.binaries.ibm.pc)
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Date: 3 Aug 89 12:37:55 GMT
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As long as we're talking about combine, could somebody please tell me what
the "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d'" (or whatever) does?  I figured that it 
deleted everything not within the BEGIN/END block of the file, but in 
some tests (just sending the result to output rather then piping it to
uudecode), I found that it didn't make any changes at all, and that
uudecode didn't give a damn whether or not there was article header
garbage in the file.

I was doing this mostly to try and make a "combine" script for extracting
shar files.  It didn't work.

If it matters, I'm using ultrix 3.0.


david.