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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Could I be doing this wrong
Message-ID: <26891@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 91 16:21:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.162222.26396@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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To: carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty)
Subject: Re: Could I be doing this wrong
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d

In article <1991Jun13.162222.26396@hollie.rdg.dec.com> you write:
>   Got  some .ZIP files from  SIMTEL via mail server.
>   Came in parts1 and 2.
>    From mail I did s 1 part01
>                              s 2 part02
>   did a quit from mail.

No need to do any of the following:
    >   I edited the part01 and left it as follows 
    >    begin 600 SPARKL28.ZIP
    > M4$L#!`H`!@`&`&V*N!8H:+>T"U0``)()`0`+````4U!!4DM,12Y$3T-A"GL'.....
    >   ........
    >  and part02 as follows
    >  (&AH:&AH:&AHZ
    > `
    > end  
    >  I did cat part02 >> part01

The following simple script will concatenate all of the parts, stripping
out the mail header and trailer garbage, and pump the result into
uudecode. This script ONLY works for mail from the simtel list servers.

#! /bin/sh
sed s/^------* End of part/,/^------* Part/d' $* | uudecode

If you name the script combinsimtel, although I don't know any
self-respecting Unix programmer that would use a name that long (: (I
use uudsim myself), you would only need to say combinsimtel part*. One
thing to keep in mind here is how Unix orders files when you use
wildcards. Make sure that you use the same number of digits in the
sequential portion of the filenames; part9 DOES NOT come before part10,
part09 comes before part10.

uudecode uses the information in the "begin" line to create it's output
file. In your case, you would end up with a file named SPARKL28.ZIP.
This, not part01, is the zip file. Unfortunately, now another problem
crops up. The version of unzip I have for Unix looks for a file ending
in .zip, not .ZIP. Unix, unlike MSDOS, is case sensitive. So you have
to rename the file to end with .zip, such as sparkl28.zip. If you use
the following slightly more complex script instead of the one above, it
will automatically lowercase the entire filename - in your case, to
sparkl28.zip.

#! /bin/sh
sed '/^begin/y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
s/^begin 0600/begin 0644/
/^------* End of part/,/^------* Part/d' $* | uudecode

Now you should be able to say unzip -v sparkl28
-- 
Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597
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