Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!silver!creps
From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Suggestion for shar file posting
Message-ID: <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 06:39:40 GMT
Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps)
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Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department
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   After having unshar'ed many programs, one thing I've noticed that
causes extra work is having to edit the file before unshar'ing it.
It would be nice if I could "w" it from rn, then unshar it without
having to do any editing.
   Now my idea: suppose the moderators of sources groups, when putting
the description/comment at the beginning of the file, could prefix these
lines with a pound sign? This would have the effect of making these
comments literally into comments, and sh would just ignore these lines
if they're not removed. This shouldn't take more than about a dozen extra
keystrokes for the moderators, just one keystroke per comment line.
   It would be much appreciated.

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