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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zmodem for Unix and VAX/VMS, part 1of4
Message-ID: <739@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 15:19:12 GMT
References: <7778@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4737@teddy.UUCP>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 25
Summary: No, no; just 'cat' them together

In article <4737@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
> the code that splits files across shar archives is broken.  It happily
> splits if/else/fi constructs across shar files, meaning that you get
> "sh" syntax errors at the start and end of every archive file that has
> a split file!
> 
> To get these files to unarchive, add the lines "echo xxx", and "fi"
> just after the last SHAR_EOF of Parts 1, 2, and 3; then delete the
> line "fi" after the first SHAR_EOF in parts 2, 3, and 4.  Then
> extract as usual.

OK, the guy made a mistake.  But you didn't really need to edit anything;
just concatenating the 4 parts together makes everything work fine.

I.e.,

% cat shar.1 shar.2 shar.3 shar.4 > shar.good
% sh shar.good


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