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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: xbin is great, but it could be even better...
Message-ID: <5982@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 18:54:59 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.5982
Posted: Thu Apr  9 18:54:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 14:59:21 EST
References: <1280@midas.TEK.COM>
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Graduate Students
Lines: 35
Keywords: xbin, suggestions for improvement
Summary: try this...

In article <1280@midas.TEK.COM>, herbw@midas.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) writes:
> 
>     ...there could be a switch so that xbin would perform a macput
>     immediately after converting the file.
> 

Try putting the following in your .cshrc...

alias send 'macput `xbin -l \!* |grep macname|tr -d \: |sed s/macname.//|tr \\40 _;xbin \!*`'
alias list 'xbin -l \!* '

Here's the first line again, broken so it fits into the terminal width for
reading:

alias send 'macput `xbin -l \!* |grep macname|\
	tr -d \: |sed s/macname.//|tr \\40 _;xbin \!*`'

Invocation:  'send file.hqx' 
               xbin the file and macput it right away
             'list file.hqx'
               short summary of what's in it

I don't claim that the first one is the best way to do it, in fact it 
probably is not.  It's just something I whipped up after reading Herb's
posting.  (I did test it, seemed to work.)  These both take advantage
of the -l switch in xbin which causes it to read the header from the
binhex file and print it out.  

Here is a summary of how it works:

I know what the line containing the Mac file name looks like, so I grep
for it, remove "macname: ", and then convert all blanks to underlines.
The result is the name that the xbined files will have on the host.  I
then run xbin, and if everything goes normally, macput gets the correct
file name as argv[1].