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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga shar files are ANNOYING !
Message-ID: <2631@scolex.sco.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 17:46:08 GMT
References: <4715@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <1fn=H29lt21010=prfA@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
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In article <4715@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Richard K. Lloyd) writes:
>   My point is that every line of the latest Amiga uuencoded binaries is
>preceded by an 'X' (which is automatically stripped if you run it through
>shar). If you are used to concatenating parts into one big uuencoded file,
>then it's a REAL PAIN to strip the leading X off each line. The old system
>didn't use to do this and I was happy with the minimal effort required to
>concatenate files...please, please remove the X's !!!!!

Those 'X' characters actually have a purpose in life.  For example,
the word:

From

will cause problems when passed to mail on a new line.  Most mailers 
look for the word 'From' on a new line to denote who the message is
from.   By putting an 'X' in front of all the lines via shar, one
does not have to worry about getting a '>' prepended to the 'From'
on a new line.

------- Amigas bought early -------

I bought mine in Jan of 86, and am still going strong without
a single hardware problem.   Looks like I won't be buying another
computer anytime soon either... :-)

brian 
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