Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Frac, extraction Summary: The comp.binaries.ibm.pc combine script Message-ID: <12259@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 Feb 90 22:18:04 GMT References: <12516@nigel.udel.EDU> Reply-To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen) Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 15 Here is the official comp.binaries.ibm.pc "combine" script which will combine mutipart postings and then uudecode, ignoring headers and trailers as it goes. It relys on the key words BEGIN and END which appear in each posting. Notice these are all caps, not the usual begin and end associated with the uuencoded portion. #! /bin/sh cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' | uudecode Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz