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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!htsa.htsa.aha.nl!eduard
- From: eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes)
- Subject: Re: compressor writing uuencoded files
- References: <1992Nov19.141920.27289@htsa.aha.nl> <Bxz9L9.CqK@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:20:45 GMT
- Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.152045.2925@htsa.aha.nl>
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- I learned from the example you gave but..
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- it was not exactly wat I meant.
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- If you want to send a file which is bigger as 64k they say it will not
- work everywhere so people split it.
- Something i would like is a program capable of
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- compress file | uuencode <file.Z > file.Z.uue | split file.Z.uue.spl
- (with split I mean a program which splits file.uue in several chunks)
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- then someone reads news (or gets a email message with a program )
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- you should be able to:
- read article (1 of 5) - save article as carbage.spl
- read part 3 of 5 - save article as carbage.spl (appended)
- read part 2 of 5 - save article as carbage.spl (appended)
- read part 4 of 5 - save article as carbage.spl (appended again)
- read part 5 of 5 - save article as carbage.spl (append)
-
- then type:
- mv carbage.spl file.spl.Z.uue (original name)
- unsplit file.Z.uue.spl|uudecode file.Z.uue|decompress file.Z
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- (unsplit finds out him/herself out which order the carbage is.
- and resort it.
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- another example:
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- garbo.uwasa.fi sends a file back to you (after you're request)
- which is a bit messy (it contains several chunks :
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- mail part 35 of 100
- begin bigfile part 35 of 100
- ....
- end of part 35 of 100
-
- begin bigfile 1 of 100
- ....
- end of part 1 of 100
-
- etc....
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- It would be nice if you can type:
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- unsplit mboxfile|uudecode|decompress
- rm mboxfile
- and use the file(s) you asked
-
- (BTW thanks for you're reply)
-