Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decwrl!uunet!drivax!liberato From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) 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: <889Y9PY@dri.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 20:10:36 GMT References: <1991Mar6.003554.10977@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <8722@gollum.twg.com> <1991Mar12.230527.22306@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Distribution: na Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Development Center Lines: 26 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >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);... >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... > [more info on how to unshar efficiently] If there are any nn newsreader users who haven't toyed with some of its advanced features, try this: After highlighting the articles you want in the article selection menu in the amiga binaries group type :unshar The headers get stripped and saved and all the selections get unshared. Now if they didn't have the superfluous sharing all you would have to do is type :decode and you would directly end up with the *.zoo file as with the ibmpc binaries group. -- Jimmy Liberato liberato@dri.com ...uunet!drivax!liberato