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How to post binaries

#307
From: Kai-Uwe Rommel
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 13:42
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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
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Subject: How to post binaries
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