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From: crs@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (Is it Friday yet?!?!?) Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Suggestion for shar file posting
Message-ID: <450@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com>
Date: 29 Jan 88 18:29:57 GMT
References: <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <2127@tekred.TEK.COM>
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In article <2127@tekred.TEK.COM>, billr@tekred.TEK.COM (Bill Randle) writes:
< In article creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
< >   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? [ ... ]
< 
< What I like to use is the "unshar" program from Rich Salz (I beleive
< there are others as well).  This program saves the header info in a
< seperate file then passes the real meat on to "sh".
< 
< 	-Bill Randle

That sounds good to me too, but I couldn't compile Rich's unshar on my
3B15, since it contains a large amount of 4.2 BSD dependent code.  Does
anyone have a version running under System V?

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