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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Message-ID: <1273@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 88 23:43:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.1273
References: <868@fig.bbn.com>
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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Summary: And suppose a line begins with e.g. Xenix?

In article <868@fig.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
: The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when
: the first character is a non-alphabetic.  I decided to do this to
: ...
: I'd like to see some discussion here, thanks.
: 

Any line beginning with an X gets scrod.

It also messes up alignments if you are visually inspecting before
unshar-ing.

Please change it to be consistent.

Thanks,

Thos Sumner       (thos@cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos@ucsfcca
(The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

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