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From: mbn@fpssun.fps.com (Mike Northam ext 2651)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Message-ID: <11180@sns4.fps.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 16:32:35 GMT
References: <3415@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: mbn@fpssun.fps.com (Mike Northam ext 2651)
Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton,OR
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In article <3415@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes:
[munch]
| 
| 1. Save each part in a different file, with a common stem -- e.g. if
| foo.zoo gets posted in 5 parts, save foo1, foo2, foo3, foo4, foo5.
| 
| 2. Run the following script over foo* :
| 
| #!/bin/sh
| echo unpacking from $* to `grep begin $1`
| cat $* | sed '/END--/,/BEGIN--/d' | uudecode
| 
| for example, if the above happens to be called unpack, then do
| 
| unpack foo*
| 
| If you have more than 10 parts, you have to be craftier, since the
| wild card expansion in the shell will put the parts out of order,
| since they get sorted in dictionary, rather than numeric, order, so
| you have to do
| 
| unpack foo[0-9] foo1[0-9] foo2[0-9] etc. ...
| 
If you save into filenames foo01 ... foo10 foo11, etc., you can just say
  unpack foo* 
as the sorting order will be correct.

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