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From: kvancamp@ardec.arpa (Ken Van Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re:  PD/Shareware list decoding
Message-ID: <4830@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 88 17:21:22 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
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There is an error in John Kjellman's latest posting of Part 1 of his PD/
Shareware posting.  The part of the shar file that unpacks the usenet
list looks like this:

if test -f 'usenet.list.Z.uu'
then
	echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'usenet.list.Z.uu'"
else
cat << \SHAR_EOF > 'usenet.list.Z.uu'
begin 644 usenet.list.Z.uu

which creates a file called 'usenet.list.Z.uu' in the unshar.  Unfortuately,
that is the same file name assigned in the first line of the uudecode!
So uudecode tries to overwrite the file it is reading, destroying the
original 'usenet.list.Z.uu' file and leaving you with only gibberish.  To
correct this, change the last line above to:

begin 644 usenet.list.Z

Also, John, I like your idea, but in the future you might want to put
your physical mailing address in each of the original ".list" files.
After we've finished stripping off the mail headers and going through
the decoding process (not keeping the originals because we don't have
enough disk space), we look at the list files and realize we no longer
have any ordering information!  I just assumed it was in each file!

                            --Ken Van Camp 
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