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From: tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
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Subject: Question- trn/mcvert/extracting
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Date: 27 Feb 91 06:14:52 GMT
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I'm finding the section in the man pages for trn rather uninformative about
what the "extract to directory" command is used for, and how.  If I
understand correctly, I should be able to use it to automatically run
postings on comp.binaries.mac through mcvert (to convert the binhex
data to MacBinary).  But typing "e | mcvert" at the end of such a post
gets an error message, saying that the file type can't be determined.

What am I doing wrong, or am I trying to do something which can't be
done using this command?  I've had equally little success trying to
accomplish the same thing with the save to pipeline command.
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