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In article <1280@midas.TEK.COM>, herbw@midas.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) writes:

> xbin is a marvelous tool.  I have not used BinHex since discovering xbin.
> The following are two suggestions for making xbin even better:

> 2.  Currently, when a program is too big to send as a single posting and must
>     be split, each recipient must manually edit the file to remove the headers.
>     I don't know if it is possible (perhaps an expert could enlighten me), but
>     it would be very nice if xbin could detect "--- End of Part n ---" or some
>     other character (or sequence of characters) which would normally never
>     occur, and suspend the xbin operation until the "---" signifies the next
>     piece.


I have written a little program which does this.  I call it bhcomb.  It
is written in c under Sys V.  It is pretty simple, and works.  Its
capability of traversing files should be incorporated into xbin, but that's
another matter.  I routinely use bhcomb under a simple shell script to
turn multiple binhexed binaries into one file for xbin.

BTW, bhcomb validates BinHex lines as opposed to looking for "--- End of
..." delimeters.

I was going to post this to the net, but it was ~4K, and I posted it
about a month ago.  I'll repost it if I get enough requests.

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