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- #
- # A script to extract binary files from uudecoded files. Ignores all headers
- # and irrelevant stuff. Has shortfalls like all such scripts/programs but works
- # (almost) 100% of the time. We tested it against many such tools available
- # at many ftp sites and found it having higher success rate. There are
- # a few c-programs out there and it is slower as compared to them but it
- # works even in those cases when they fail to work.
- # The only time it will not work is that if uuencoded source file is cut up
- # in many pieces and LAST part contains LESS THAN 3 SOURCE lines in it and
- # we know that such cases (almost) never arise....guarenteed....:)
- #
- # Written by Tahir Zia Khawaja and
- # Nasir Ahmed Noor
- #umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- #umkhawaj@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- #
- awk '$0 ~ /^begin / {print $0; exit}' $1 > $$gifile
- egrep "^M[^a-z]" $1 >> $$gifile
- awk 'NR > 2 {sl=lr; lr=pr; pr=$0} $1 ~ /^end/ {print sl; print lr; print pr; exit}' $1 >> $$gifile
- uudecode $$gifile
- rm $$gifile
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