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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Proposed change to names of sources/binaries postings
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Date: 13 Apr 90 13:32:32 GMT
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In article <1588@male.EBay.Sun.COM> koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes:
>Someone has suggested that since software to automatically save news articles
>using the filename in the "Archive-name" pseudo-header line, I should stop
>calling the articles program/part01, program/part02, etc. and start calling
>them program/program.uaa, program/program.uab, and so on.  This would enable
>Dumas uud to pick up the parts effortlessly.
>
>Personally, I'd like to see Dumas uud hacked to take multiple filenames
>on the command line instead, but it's no problem for me to use the proposed
>filenames if people prefer that.
>
>Comments?

No changes to the Dumas uud program are necessary. The program is pretty
smart, it does a two-part search for the continuation files already. First
it looks for the named file, e.g. program.uab, but if that file doesn't
exist it merely continues to read its current input file. So, to decode a
multipart posting, merely
	cat part* | uud
and you get the output file, no muss & no fuss.

I noticed this by reading thru the code posted in comp.sources.atari.st,
volume 2. If you're not using this version of uud yet, you should switch.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan