Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Subject: Re: Is there a joiner for uuencoded file parts? Message-ID: <1991May30.035220.23253@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1991May14.192458.19903@dvorak.amd.com> <1991May15.144538.24655@convex.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 03:52:20 GMT Lines: 22 In article ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >Sorry, I do not understand this shell script. Don't all versions of >Dumas' uud strip extraneous headers and trailers from uuencoded files? >The problem arises with all the nonstandard decoders/encoders that >exist. Ralph is right. One does not need such a complicated script. UUD will ignore the parts that it does not need. It jumps from the "include", past the mail or news header, and straight to the next "begin" line. A good command line might be like this: cat somebigf.u?? | uud Silvert's adaptation of the Dumas' code is great. Highly recommended. -- Prof L.J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1 internet: ljdickey@watmath.UWaterloo.ca BITNET/EARN: ljdickey@watdcs obsolescent?: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu UUCP: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!ljdickey