randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison) (06/15/88)
What ever happened to those beautiful shars that were being generated?
One of the big hopes i had for a moderator was that all the postings
would be coming through in a nice, easy to use, format. But here I am,
back to catting a bunch of files together and going into vi at 1200
baud and looking for cut marks. Arg. Unshar was sooo nice...
-randy
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Randy Orrison, Control Data, Arden Hills, MN randy@ux.acss.umn.edu
8-(OSF/Mumblix: Just say NO!)-8 {ihnp4, seismo!rutgers, sun}!umn-cs!randy
"I consulted all the sages I could find in Yellow Pages,
but there aren't many of them." -APPw8sdz@brl-smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) (06/15/88)
Has anyone written a shell script to automatically cat multiple
uuencoded files that are made with the PC uuencode program that puts a
string at the beginning which says "section 1 of myfile.arc" and ends
with a similar statement? Seems to me that a shell script could be
written to deal automatically with those, including stripping all before
and after, as well as blank lines.
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Keith Petersen
Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA
Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz
GEnie: W8SDZleonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (06/26/88)
In article <5847@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
<What ever happened to those beautiful shars that were being generated?
<One of the big hopes i had for a moderator was that all the postings
<would be coming through in a nice, easy to use, format. But here I am,
<back to catting a bunch of files together and going into vi at 1200
<baud and looking for cut marks. Arg. Unshar was sooo nice...
Please *don't*. It take me far more effort to get a shar'ed posting
down to my XT than it does for a uuencoded one.
If I'm in a hurry, I can just save all the articles into a file,
compress it, xmodem it to the XT and deal with it there. Or I can
edit the file in unix to strip out the headers, uudecode it and
download the ARC file.
With shr'ed files I have to strip everything out, copy the resulting file
to an empty directory (to avoid name conflicts), unshar it, and then, like as
not, download a dozen or so files. Blecch!
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Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk) (06/29/88)
In article <932@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: > In article <5847@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes: > <What ever happened to those beautiful shars that were being generated? > > Please *don't*. It take me far more effort to get a shar'ed posting > down to my XT than it does for a uuencoded one. > ... > With shr'ed files I have to strip everything out, copy the resulting file > to an empty directory (to avoid name conflicts), unshar it, and then, like as > not, download a dozen or so files. Blecch! Rich Salz (moderator of comp.sources.unix) has written an unshar utility that takes care of all the stripping and concatenating that you had to do manually. I have ported it to DOS and sent him the diffs. He is promising a re-release sometime early July (only a week or two now). You can then ship the entire sharfile to your XT and unshar it there. I assume this would make it slightly less unpalatable ;-]. > Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard Greg Yachuk Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA (415) 322-4100 {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!greggy !yes, I chose that login myself