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Article #41328Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts
From: goldfarb
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1989 15:18
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1989 15:18
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>>I dont get it. The things came from unix in the first place, and
>>unix has this neat tool (I no its too sophisticated for the Mac :-) )
>>called cat.
>
> It's easy enough to catenate files together; the problem is in removing
>file headers, extraneous lines like "-- End of part 23 --", etc. so BinHex
>won't choke. This processing can be done on the un*x box prior to transfer,
Big deal. I just use the following script:
#! /bin/sh
#
cat $* | sed -e '/(This file/b<done>
1,/^---/ d
/^---/,/^---/ d
/^---/,$ d
:<done>' | xbin -
---
Sure, there are some data dependencies, but I've never had it not work!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!indri!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!codas!flnexus!pcsi!peora!ucf-cs!hcx9!goldfarb From: goldfarb@hcx9.UCF.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts Message-ID: <2600020@hcx9> Date: 23 Apr 89 15:18:00 GMT References: <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:csvax1.cs.tcd.ie:-4201100:hcx9:2600020:000:877 Nf-From: hcx9.UCF.EDU!goldfarb Apr 23 11:18:00 1989