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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: How to post binaries
Message-ID: <957@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:42:03 GMT
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Reply-To: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Distribution: comp.os.os2
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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There were some multi-article binaries sent in the last time. There is a
good convention used in comp.binaries.ibm.pc for such big archives. We
should use it here too.

1. UUENCODE the archive

2. Split it up into parts less than 64k

3. (Main) Add a line 
   "BEGIN---cut---here---"
   to the beginning of each part and a line
   "END---cut---here---"
   to the end of each part.

So we can extract the archive from the news articles using the Unix
script:
	cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' | uudecode


Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich,
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de