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From: mallari@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Mallari)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Extraction of binaries from multiple articles  - a question
Summary: Use "combine"
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Date: 16 Mar 89 19:55:58 GMT
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In article <3173@homxb.ATT.COM> rry@homxb.ATT.COM (R.YADAVALLI) writes:
>haven't had much success with getting stuff out of multi-part postings.  I 
[....]
>Could some kind soul e-mail me the right way of dealing with these multi-part
>articles?  Thank you all in advance for your help.

Create a file called "combine" that contains the following:

#! /bin/sh
cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' | uudecode

Then just type:    combine <file1> <file2> <file3> ......
where file1,2,3,... are the parts of the uuencoded file.
You don't have to edit the parts at all before you run 'compile'.

-Brian

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