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From: brad@cayman.COM (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: File headers on shar files
Message-ID: <505@cayman.COM>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 14:11:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cayman.505
Posted: Sat Dec  5 14:11:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 20:36:51 EST
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Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma
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rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz):
> In turgid prose, someone writes:
> #I therefore propose that in the future, when sources (or any other 'shar'
> #file) is posted, that the powers that be place any needed 'introduction'
...
> #first character of each line is a "#", making it a shell comment line.
> #Comments?
> Don't look for it in comp.sources.unix, good luck in alt.sources, and I doubt
> any of the other moderators will follow.  Here's why:


I changed a copy of generic "unshar" to automagically handle concatenated
shar files. I can not believe I am the first to want to do this. Are there
any other "already available" shars which already do this? (or should I
post mine?) ps: I'm about to run out and grab a copy of uuhosts. I was
wondering what it did ;-)

pps: Am I the only one who thinks inews has gotten a bit fascist? It rejected
my posting claiming there where more included lines than new lines. yowza.
-- 

Brad Parker
Cayman Systems			"Mama's little baby likes violent sex..."
harvard!cayman!brad			   - from a song I heard on the radio.