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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Message-ID: <2488@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 03:42:09 GMT
References: <3415@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <11180@sns4.fps.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <11180@sns4.fps.com> mbn@fpssun.fps.com (Mike Northam ext 2651) writes:

| | 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.

  Why... you could even *use* the archive name in the header field!
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