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From: jwhite@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (White)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Message-ID: <4687@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:44:52 GMT
References: <1717@syteke.be>
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Reply-To: jwhite@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
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In article <1717@syteke.be> jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) writes:
>I may have missed something a long while back but it seems odd that
>all the binary postings in this group seem to require editing to
>remove the headers/etc.  Given that most (I assume) are reading
>and posting news from *NIX type machines, why don't the uuencoded
>files get wrapped up so a simple sh <file> will expose them.
>--
>Jim Sanchez          | jim@syteke.be (PREFERRED)
>Hughes LAN Systems   | OR uunet!mcsun!ub4b!syteke!jim
>Brussels Belgium     | OR {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim

In my case, I am using a PC to connect to a another computer to read
the postings here.  If I want to get a series of UUENCODED files, I
"print" them to my pc, but direct the output to a file by changing the
file name from prn to XXXX#.UUE where XXXX is a root name, # = 1,2,3,4
... (equal part# of ##). I then run a version of UUDECODE that was recently
posted as C:\>UUDECODE XXXX
This runs through all of the parts, ignoring all the mail headers and
footers and combines them into one XXXX.ZOO.  As you can see I do not
do any editing and to put them in a sh <file> would really mess me up
Since the postings are for a PC, they should be easily acessable on
a PC.

Joe White
DTRC Code 2723, Annapolis MD
jwhite@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil