Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!tadguy From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Remember Newsbreak? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 90 01:41:59 GMT References: <1417.AA1417@worsel> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: blaine@worsel.UUCP's message of 17 Jan 90 01:29:23 GMT In article <1417.AA1417@worsel> blaine@worsel.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: > Remember Newsbreak, that wonderful little program by Fred Walter? > it doesn't work on the new postings from Tad Guy. This seems to be > because the ".zuu01" suffix is different from what Newsbreak is > expecting. Right. However, because of the leading zero, submissions requiring more than 10 parts can be unpacked with: cat foo.zuu?? | uudecode instead of more complicated things (like cat foo.zuu1? foo.zuu?, etc). > Has anyone got an updated version of Newsbreak? Or a similar program that > runs on the Amiga instead of Unix? Fred Walter (the author) does. I've been in contact with him about this (and a couple of other things about newsbreak) and he's enhanced it. Look for it in comp.sources.misc (not comp.sources.amiga, since it's far more general) soon... ...tad