grwalter@watfun.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) (03/14/90)
I've made some changes to newsbreak since the last release. Here is a
discription and summary of changes :
* DESCRIPTION:
* Takes a series of files which are shar files (strips any
* garbage at the start of the shar file) that have been posted to
* comp.{sources|binaries}.* and feeds them through sh.
* After they have been fed through sh the original files are
* deleted. Then any uuencoded files are uudecoded, after which
* the uuencoded files are also deleted.
* 1.07 - added ifdef's around code needed so this compiles under System V
* - changes by ames!uts.amdahl.com!dwl10@mailrus (Dave Lowrey)
* 1.08 - now check for ": This is a shar archive." when checking
* if a file is a shar archive
* - now check for "# This is the first line of a \"shell archive\""
* when checking if a file is a shar archive
* - build up a list of files in the current directory before unshar'ing
* - scan these files to see which ones should be unshar'ed and try
* to determine the best ordering for unshar'ing (using the secondary
* header "Archive-name:" if it exists, otherwise using file name)
* - print what directory is being searched for uuencoded files
* - print what is being uudecoded
Now, if you have a multi-shar distribution, in which the order that it is
unpacked matters, and they don't arrive at your system in the correct
order, but the postings do have an Archive-name secondary header which
correctly reflects the order needed (IE. by part#), then it will be unpacked
correctly.
Whew, what a run-on sentence.
The posting of uucp1.03d that came across comp.{sources/binaries}.amiga a
while back was out of order when it reached my site, so I figured I'd add
this capability to newsbreak.
This has been shipped off to comp.sources.misc and should show up there soon.
fred
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