Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin
From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Thanks, I'd rather do it myself
Message-ID: <2233@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:55:44 GMT
References: <2237@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 15
Keywords: self extracting arc

In article <2237@ttidca.TTI.COM> clark@ttidca.TTI.COM (Ralph Clark) writes:
>archive. Inquiry to three local gurus failed to produce a simple one-line
>shell command alternative. It will undoubtedly fail if you ask it to delete
>
>9758 has been posted as the length of the extraction program - no doubt
>
>Usage : lobotomy -9758 <skyplot.exe >skyplot.arc  (uudecoded first!)

A simple way to delete 9758 bytes from a file:

     dd if=infile of=outfile bs=1 skip=9758

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