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From: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Suggestion for shar file posting
Message-ID: <276@cutsys.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 17:23:58 GMT
References: <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt (753-1646))
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Organization: Garfield's Litterbox - Corvallis, Ore.
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In article <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
>
>   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.


	It's really not a bad idea, and should probably be done in any
case, but it would seem that Steve hasn't heard of the unshar utility
(by Michael Mauldin).  This nice little tool is usually smart enough to
pick out the goodies from just about any mail or news file.  Since I
usually s)ave rather than w)rite (the header info is sometimes useful),
the commenting wouldn't do me any good anyway.  If you can't locate the
sources, I have them, tho' my version is pretty old, 1/29/85, and there
might be something newer out.

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