[comp.os.os2] How to post binaries

rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (12/08/89)

There were some multi-article binaries sent in the last time. There is a
good convention used in comp.binaries.ibm.pc for such big archives. We
should use it here too.

1. UUENCODE the archive

2. Split it up into parts less than 64k

3. (Main) Add a line 
   "BEGIN---cut---here---"
   to the beginning of each part and a line
   "END---cut---here---"
   to the end of each part.

So we can extract the archive from the news articles using the Unix
script:
	cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' | uudecode


Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich,
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) (12/12/89)

If someone posts binaries to this group, would
they please thell if they'll run under DOS too?

That saves a lot of time.

Thanks,
Michael

nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) (12/20/89)

How can uuencoding, splitting, and "marking" be automated so that
the procedure for packing and unpacking be easy and standarized.

Thank you.