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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: "-----" in comp.sources.amiga posting headers deprecated
Keywords: the achingly nuzzlable neck of TJ Flynn (tm xanthian lust, inc.)
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.003554.10977@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 6 Mar 91 00:35:54 GMT
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
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Folks who are wrapping up shar files for the comp.sources.amiga
moderator are requested to desist underling paragraph headings in the
introductory material with rows of dashes.  The result is decorative
as all get out, but it breaks stuff.

In particular, this confuses standard Unix "unshar" software (which
mistakes it for a "cut" line, and then tries to execute the next line as
sh commands), defeats automatic unpacking, and necessitates hand
editing to unpack the files, a minor, but unnecessary, annoyance.

Many thanks.

(The most recent example is "buttonask".)


                                                           /// It's Amiga
                                                          /// for me:  why
Kent, the man from xanth.                             \\\///   settle for
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>   \XX/  anything less?
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Convener, COMPLETED comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.