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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Problems using nn
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Date: 1 Mar 90 09:36:50 GMT
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spilker@uni-paderborn.de (Joerg spilker) writes:

>1) A problem concerning the decode option for decoding multiple 
>   splitted uuencoded binaries from the appropriate groups. I often
>   take binaries from the Atari group. The last line in splitted
>   articles is the include foo.ua? line, so if the articles are
>   saved in .uaa .uab etc. they can be easily decoded with uud.

nn does not understand the include line.  Since you feed all the parts
into the decode function, it could probably just say:

	Oh, here is an "include xyz.uaa", now I'll skip everything until
	I meet a "begin xyz.uaa" or whatever an include files starts with.

I have not had the time to look into this, but I would think it should
be fairly simple to do something like this - maybe YOU could take a
look at it ?

>2) How can I change the save-counter variable to get an alphabetic
>   numbering like uaa, uab, etc ? The manual only describes %d for
>   numerical numbering.

In 6.3 you can't.  In 6.4, you can do:

	set save-counter-offset 97	# 'a'
	set save-counter .ua%c

but that will only work for some 26 parts...

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