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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ABE Source (Part 1/3) & introduction
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Date: 24 Feb 90 23:07:02 GMT
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Ok, I admit that from a pure utility standpoint, it wasn't as easy to
unpack as a shar would have been.   But the elegance of posting
an encoder, encoded with itself, was too much to resist!  In fact it
is one of the whole ideas behind the tiny decoder.

Unpacking is not has hard as you say.  Edit out the tiny decoder from
the first part.  A handy trick to do this is to use
	!vi %A
from the RN command line, if you use RN (and not RRN).  This makes it easy to
extract the source into /tmp.   Then either save the three files into
ONE file (not 3, just concatenate them) and feed it through the a.out
you made.

A shar is no easier than this.  You have to save three files, go in to the
three files and hand edit the headers out, then run sh on them.  (I
suspect there are some unshar programs out there that can take a concatenated
multi-part shar -- I don't have one.)
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473