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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need general info
Message-ID: <3091@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 88 04:28:12 GMT
References: <2514@mtuxo.att.com> <5193@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (William Svirsky)
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <5193@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-an@sim.UUCP (David Egert) writes:
+First an unrelated question:
+I would desparately like to get Omega but missed the first postings due to
+ignorance of net use.  When will it be reposted?

It won't, or at least shouldn't, be.  It is not cost effective to repost
unless a large number of sites got munged articles or never got the articles
at all.  You can try to get them from an archive site or, if you missed
only a few, you can possibly get someone to e-mail you the missing parts,
which still costs net-bucks but is not as bad.

+I was attempting to get a game called Haunted House which was posted recent-
+ly on comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  The steps I took were:
+
+1) Save the posting to my unix account
+2) Use the command "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' <filename+ | uudecode    
+   To do this two files had to be "concatenated."  Does this automatically
+   happen when you save them consecutively to the same file?  Also, is my
+   syntax correct?  I thought it was because the command produced a file
+   called haunted.arc.

Yes, the readnews programs I am familiar with always append articles to an
existing file.

+3) I downloaded haunted.arc using xmodem to send text.  

An .arc file is a *binary* file.  Use xmodem/binary to download it to your PC.


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