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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: 20 Jul 90 17:46:34 GMT
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In article <397@philpav.UUCP> rzi@philpav.UUCP (Roman Zielinski) writes:
>In article <3994@trantor.harris-atd.com>, sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>> 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
>> massuud: 	 aliased to cat * | sed /^END/,/^BEGIN/d | uudecode

>	Yes,  it's  fine  but  what about  the posting  garbage in the
>	beginning and at the end of the messages?

PERHAPS your uudecode works differently, but mine strips the stuff
before the first BEGIN as well as after the last END (which is all
the header and trailer stuff which remains after the script above is run).
	SO, this causes my uudecode no problem. 
	Therefore, I did not have to include the additional features
incorporated into your suggested script (shown below).
	Is this not the	typical way that uudecode works?
YOUR SCRIPT:
>	The following command string removes also text up to the first
>	BEGIN and after END
>
>cat * | sed /^END/,/^BEGIN/d | sed 1,/^BEGIN/d | sed /^END/,\$\d | uudecode

-Peace...
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