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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts
Message-ID: <22311@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 21 Apr 89 08:21:52 GMT
References: <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> <22045@dhw68k.cts.com> <110@softop.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <110@softop.UUCP> jeff@softop.UUCP (Jeff) writes:
>In article <22045@dhw68k.cts.com>, thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes:
>> In article <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> fmodwyer@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND) writes:
>> >Is there a utility around which will join BinHexed files which have
>> >been split for mailing (as in comp.binaries.mac, for example)?
>> 
>I dont get it.  The things came from unix in the first place, and
>unix has this neat tool (I no its too sophisticated for the Mac :-) ) 
>called cat.

  It's easy enough to catenate files together; the problem is in removing
file headers, extraneous lines like "-- End of part 23 --", etc. so BinHex
won't choke. This processing can be done on the un*x box prior to transfer,
or on the Mac afterwards; there isn't necessarily One Right Way. My host
system is often short on user disk storage, so I have more "breathing room"
once the files are transferred to my Mac. Naturally, you need "neat tools"
for file processing; I find that MPW does the trick quite nicely.


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