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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts
Message-ID: <2791@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 19:55:47 GMT
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From article <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>, by fmodwyer@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND):
> Is there a utility around which will join BinHexed files which have
> been split for mailing (as in comp.binaries.mac, for example)?
> 
> Frank O'Dwyer,
> Dept. Of Computer Science,
> Trinity College Dublin,
> IRELAND.

I use the following shell script (really just a wrapping for a csplit
command):

	for file
	do	csplit -s -k -f xyzzy $file '%^---%'+1 '/^---/'
		cat xyzzy00
	done
	rm -f xyzzy??

I call this 'macMerge' and invoke it with
	macMerge a.1 a.2 ... a.n > a.x
and then use xbin or download the .x.

=Ned Horvath=