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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: leading comments
Message-ID: <281@frog.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 12:36:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 12:36:20 1985
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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> 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.

Nearly clever.  I inadvertently caused a great deal of confusion for some
people once by including an arachnid-sacrifice of

*** INSERT YOUR CUTE MESSAGE HERE ***

which I was told got interpreted as being just as good as

----------------CUT----------HERE----------------

Always a wise guy...


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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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