Path: utzoo!yetti!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: File headers on shar files
Summary: silly!
Message-ID: <1958@geac.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 16:55:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.1958
Posted: Thu Dec 10 11:55:54 1987
References: <393@ddsw1.UUCP> <252@papaya.bbn.com>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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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'
#that preceeds the shar into the file in such a way that it will not
#interfere with the attempts of myself (and I bet others as well) to automate
#or simplify this unpacking.  This can be assured by simply insuring that the
#first character of each line is a "#", making it a shell comment line.

#Comments?

	Write a "domail" program, which discards lines until it hits
/^#/ or /^#! *\//

 --dave (it all fits on one screen) c-b
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