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- From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
- Subject: Re: DCL program needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.060200.18983@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
- References: <0096511D.7DB95DC0.29122@nscvax.princeton.edu> <1992Dec14.174934.3670@chpc.utexas.edu> <Bz9otF.AL2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 06:02:00 GMT
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- In article <Bz9otF.AL2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu writes:
- >> > DCL is distributed with the VMS operating system. If the archive
- >> >that you received includes mail headers at the beginning, they must be
- >> >removed.
- >>
- >> My favorite yet somewhat dangerous way of unpacking it without removing mail
- >> headers:
- >>
- >> $ SPAWN/NOWAIT/NOTIFY/INPUT=shar_file SET NOON
- >
- >I usually add the following line at the very beginning:
- >
- > $ TYPE SYS$INPUT
- >
- >You can then save the mail header as well as any messages the original
- >author has written for you. In fact, it will remind you of these messages
- >every time you try to unpack it.
- > mako
-
- That's neat, haven't thought of this. But it still requires editing
- usually producing a second version of the SHAR file.
-
- Michael
- --
- Michael Lemke
- Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
- (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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