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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.
Message-ID: <4007@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 20 Jul 90 17:53:50 GMT
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Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
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In article <140012@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes:
>>> 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?
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YES, THIS SCRIPT DOES ASSUME THIS. Thus for postings of more than 9
	parts, this can cause a problem unless the parts are named
	so as to be alphabetically sorted properly.

	(Don't the postings having more than 9 parts start
		at PART01, anyway, so that the right thing
		happens in the wild-card expansion? I can't
		remember.)
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