Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!decvax!savax!long
From: long@savax.UUCP (David Long)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: map shar files
Keywords: maps shar
Message-ID: <691@savax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 19:29:58 GMT
Organization: Sanders Associates Inc., Nashua, NH
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We received a bundle of maps that no longer contain the "----cut here----"
string. This broke my shell script for updating our data-base. I am now
depending on at least one shell comment line (":" our "#") before anything
important in the shar file. Can I have a suggestion from the administrators
on some better string which I can rely on always being present in a map
shar file (and never in a non-shar file)?

Thanks
-- 
David Long  ...decvax!savax!long  (Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH)