Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!keith From: keith@gargoyle.UUCP (Keith Waclena) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: leading comments Message-ID: <157@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 13:15:28 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.157 Posted: Mon Aug 19 13:15:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:41:26 EDT References: <318@luke.UUCP> Reply-To: ihnp4!gargoyle!keith (Keith Waclena) Distribution: net Organization: University of Chicago, Graduate Library School Lines: 35 Keywords: rn unshar Summary: Use unshar instead (plus rn query) In article <318@luke.UUCP> itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes: >[...] >Most of us, when posting a source file (shell archive or otherwise), >usually put some nice commentary at the beginning. [...] > >I'd like to suggest that when we put some commentary at the beginning, >each line be preceded by the shell comment character (#). This would >allow the file to be saved (at least from rn with `w') without the >header information and processed immediately by the shell. >[...] The unshar program (previously posted to net.sources, I think) strips leading commentary in a very clever way; it strips text up to a line containing the words ``cut'' and ``here'' in that order and then runs the rest of the file through sh. In rn you can say ``w|unshar'' to get the results you want. Unshar is a good companion to shar; if you can't find it locally, send me mail and I'll see if we still have the sources here. Now a quick question: (our) rn always prepends a line like ``Article whatever from net.random'' whether I save via s or w. This screws our mail program; if I say ``use mbox format'' mail won't recognize the file as such unless I edit out that offending line.. can anyone tell me how to get rn to leave out that line? Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Waclena uucp: ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!keith CSNet: keith@UChicago.CSNet Graduate Library School ARPA: keith@UChicago.ARPA University of Chicago Bitnet: kdw1%sphinx@uchicago.bitnet