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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
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Date: 19 Jul 90 00:28:34 GMT
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In article <5213@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes:
>Does anyone have an automated way of extracting programs from the postings in
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc ?
>Ideally this would order the postings correctly (they sometimes appear in the
>wrong order) and extract and concatenate the uuencoded text.
>
>Thanks
>
>Henry Bruce

I don't recall from what forum I copied this off the net, but the
following alias has worked to perfection for me. I have only to
copy all parts of a posting: say

	POST1, POST2, POST3

to a given directory in which NO OTHER FILES RESIDE and then, in
that directory, to issue the command:

	massuud

which I have aliased to:

massuud: 	 aliased to cat * | sed /^END/,/^BEGIN/d | uudecode

The files are miraculously concatenated together, everything NOT between
the BEGIN and END lines of each posting is discarded; and finally,
the residue is UUDECODED. This last operation virtually always--here
on cbip, anyway--results in a *.zoo file. One then simply has to apply 
Rahul Dhesi's "unzoo-er" to extract the original files. It is quite
simple (but ONLY after you have done it successfully one time!).
	Good luck...
	And, Peace.

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