[comp.sys.mac.programmer] TN Stack Help!

tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) (08/07/90)

Okay I downloaded all nine binhexed parts of the TN stack to my mac. Now
how do I decode them -- I thought join would work in stuffit, but these
files do not seem to be segmented in that fashion -- I need to do the
equivalent of cat parts[1-9] > very_big_file.hqx and then do a decode
bin hex I guess. But I don't know how to do the appending of the .hqx
files. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Mike Tarr
tarr@cs.yale.edu

mnowak@bushido.uucp (Michael A. Nowak) (08/09/90)

In article <25747@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) writes:
>
>Okay I downloaded all nine binhexed parts of the TN stack to my mac. Now
>how do I decode them -- I thought join would work in stuffit, but these
>files do not seem to be segmented in that fashion -- I need to do the
>equivalent of cat parts[1-9] > very_big_file.hqx and then do a decode
>bin hex I guess. But I don't know how to do the appending of the .hqx
>files. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>Mike Tarr
>tarr@cs.yale.edu

I've found that Microsoft Word's Print Merge can be put to good use
here.  Set up a file like the following:

<<include TN-Stack-part1.hqx>>
<<include TN-Stack-part2.hqx>>
<<include TN-Stack-part3.hqx>>

where << and >> are generated by Option-\ and Shift-Option-\ respectively.
Then select Print Merge and print to a new document.  This effectively does
that cat parts*.hqx > file.hqx that you're looking for.  It can be a little
slow but I find it easier than copying and pasting the big document together.

Of course, you could also run A/UX and type cat parts*.hqx > file.hqx.  :)

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