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From: nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui)
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 16:46:27 GMT
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>> Bob Davis writes:
>..... deleted ....
>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.
>
>
>

Doesn't this assume that you save each posting in a separate files
making sure you name the files are named eg. p01 p02 ... p19 instead
of p1 p2 ... p19 so that they are correctly sorted when unix expand
the wild character above?

It is much easier task to save the postings (especially when they are
in the correct order) to the same file and then run the script
above on that file.  I usually use the sequence (in notes) 
	s  f  <return> <return>  repeatedly and just make sure the
postings get concatenated in the correct order.

BTW.  why are parts 2...etc of a postings posted as responses?
I guess they would not arrive in the same order?