Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!indetech!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: "-----" in comp.sources.amiga posting headers deprecated Keywords: the achingly nuzzlable neck of TJ Flynn (tm xanthian lust, inc.) Message-ID: <1991Mar12.230527.22306@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 12 Mar 91 23:05:27 GMT References: <1991Mar6.003554.10977@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <8722@gollum.twg.com> Distribution: na Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 36 david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: > (And don't tell me you throw away that useful commentary at the > beginning? Shame! How else do you know who to blame on that cheap PD > software!?) Nope; I always save that and pack it away as POSTER.sources or POSTER.binaries (or occasionally POSTER.archive); at least 90% of my 800meg or so of USENet archives can be traced back to the originator by a saved header file. I get help doing this; the "unshar" here is especially nice; it takes the part _above_ what it identifies at the shar file, and saves it as .hdr. The unshar I use on the Amiga doesn't do that, so I almost always unpack stuff on the Unix box. Of course, unshar does that for all 50 files in a distribution, so I get to rename the first one and throw away the other 49, but unshar is still a big time saver; as opposed to editing the s01 - s50 files I saved out of comp.sources.amiga that makeup the GeeWhiz! distribution one by one, saving the shar files and cutting off the headers, a process that can easily take an hour on a slow system, I just say (unshar s?? > ../geewhiz.log) >& /dev/null & and the stuff unpacks in the background silently, saving a log I can read to check for unpacking errors, while I go on about my assigned task to post more news articles than anyone in the world. ;-) Now if the unshar were only smart enough to peel of the .signatures from the bottom of the article after the shar file and save that appended to the .hdr file.... Oh, well, it's an imperfect universe at best. Kent, the man from xanth.