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From: cuddy@convex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Thanks, I'd rather do it myself
Message-ID: <92500007@convex>
Date: 8 Apr 88 20:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convex.UUCP!cuddy    Apr  8 15:11:00 1988



> ...Inquiry to three local gurus failed to produce a simple one-line
> shell command alternative.... 
> ... 9758 has been posted as the length of the extraction program...

> Usage : lobotomy -9758 <skyplot.exe >skyplot.arc  (uudecoded first!)

try tail +7959c skyplot.exe > skyplot.arc

or as a shell script:
---lobot.sh---<snip>--
#!/bin/csh -f
if ( $#argv != "3" ) then
   echo "Usage: lobotomy [bytes] [infile] [outfile]"
   exit 1
endif
@ argv[1]++
tail +$1c $2 > $3
----------------------
chmod 775 lobot.sh
Usage: lobot.sh [bytes] [infile] [outfile]

This works in 4.3BSD.  Check to make sure that your tail can do n characters.
(ours does n characters words or lines--I don't think it's a local enhancement
although our company is prone to doing such things).

Mike Cuddy,
CONVEX Computer Corp
{ihnp4,sun,allegra,uiucdcs}!convex!cuddy