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From: bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
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Date: 28 Jul 90 07:58:10 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.

You could try 'nn' on a Unix OS.  It is what I use, and it is quite easy to
decode/unshar postings.

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