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From: d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re^2: USENET backbone file
Message-ID: <45@harald.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 17:07:38 GMT
References: <1109@stech.UUCP> <242@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) writes:

<In article <1109@stech.UUCP> jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
<>Would some kind soul please mail me the text file that contains the latest
<>USENET backbone.

<#! /bin/sh
<# this is a "shar" archive - run through "/bin/sh" to extract 1 files:
<#   backbone-list
<# Wrapped by chip@vector on Sat May 20 19:18:55 CDT 1989
<# Unpacking this archive requires:  sed test wc (possibly mkdir)
<# Existing files will not be clobbered unless "-c" is specified on the cmd line.
<if test -f backbone-list -a "$1" != "-c" ; then
<    echo "backbone-list: file exists - will not be overwritten"
<else
<    echo "x - backbone-list (file 1 of 1, 0 chars)"
<    sed -e 's/^X//' << 'END_OF_FILE_backbone-list' > backbone-list
<END_OF_FILE_backbone-list
<    size="`wc -c < backbone-list`"
<    if test 0 -ne "$size" ; then
<	echo "backbone-list: extraction error - got $size chars"
<    fi
<fi
<echo "done - 1 files extracted"
<exit 0

<-- 
<Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337

Could someone please explain to me what Chip's reply means? Onestly, I don't
understand it.
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