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From: dave@tygra.UUCP (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Seeking "smarter" UUDECODE.C type utility
Summary: Will you settle for .PAS?
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.070051.26557@tygra.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 91 07:00:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.020001.15847@ashtate>
Organization: Moore Software, Detroit, MI
Lines: 50

In article <1991Jan22.020001.15847@ashtate> tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>
>Has anyone made a modified UUDECODE that will skip through
>"junk" between sections of multi-part posts?  Essentially, I
>can easily save several files to a large text file on disk.
>However, I then have to go in and edit out the various
>"cut here" or "snip - snip" lines (and any other extra "junk"
>between pieces) before I can then UUDECODE it.
>

I have a program written in Turbo Pascal 5.5 which filters out all lines
in a file not between lines beginning with:
 
"BEGIN--cut" and "END--cut" (cbip)
"-------------- Part" and "---------- End" (SIMTEL20)
"--- start" and "--- end" (??? Did I get this from garbo.uwasa.fi, Timo?)
 
Note that another problem with storing all parts in one file is that you
can't verify the brik checksums.  I store each part in a separate file,
brik -cv them, then concatenate and cut them, then uudecode and looz.
 
I would be more than happy to release cut to the public domain.  If you want
to post cut.exe, Bill, email me.  If you aren't Bill Davidson and you
want to see the program here, email him and tell him (that way *his*
mailbox gets flooded and not *mine*...heh heh heh).  If there's enough
interest, I'll also post the source to comp.lang.pascal.

>   3.  Ignore the "starting with M" rule on the final
>       line, which I belive is indicated after "begin" how many
>       encoded lines there are.
>

The number after "begin" does NOT indicate how many encoded lines there
are, but there will probably be eighteen other posts telling what it
*does* mean.  It is an invariant "644" in the three versions of uuencode
I have, and I've only run into one uuencoded file with a different number
ever (it was "600").  I think it's a version number.

>Tom Rombouts  Torrance 'Tater  tomr@ashtate.A-T.com  V:(213)538-7108

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