Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!camcon!mrh
From: mrh@camcon.co.uk (Mark Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
Message-ID: <7899@titan.camcon.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jul 90 08:56:35 GMT
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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.

I use the following Unix shell script with the newsreader nn (which orders
the postings for me):


tee /tmp/mrhuuj$$ | sed -e '/^END--cut here/,/^BEGIN--cut here/d' "$@" | uudecode
cat /tmp/mrhuuj$$ | grep begin | sed 's/begin [0-9]* \([a-zA-Z0-9]*\)\..*/\1/' |\
sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\1\.hed/' >/tmp/mrhuuj$$.name
cat /tmp/mrhuuj$$ | sed '/BEGIN--cut here/,$d' >`cat /tmp/mrhuuj$$.name`
rm /tmp/mrhuuj$$ /tmp/mrhuuj$$.name


This produces a pair of files: progname.hed and progname.zoo. The .hed file
contains the text at the head of the first part of the posting, and the .zoo
file is ready for transfer to a PC for unarchiving. If you read your news
on a Unix machine, this should work for you, if not you might be able to
get it to work with the Unix-alike tools available for PCs, but it may not
be too easy. To use the above with nn, you type 'S' followed by '|uujoin',
and then the letters of the postings (in the correct order!).

I hope this is of use to someone, Mark

PS If Ian Phillips is reading this - yes, I do remember you wrote the
orignial version. I just tweaked it to produce the .hed files!
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