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From: sgrimm@sun.com (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: uud bit me again
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Date: 3 Oct 89 14:53:12 GMT
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In article <17919@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu (John Morton) writes:
>The first file in a uuencoded set has a name on the "begin"
>line such that if the file is named with that name, the newly opened
>arc file (with the same name) will immediately trash it.

Yes, uud probably should warn you about that.  It's easily tweakable if you
have the source.

>What makes this treacherous is that the _other_ parts of
>the uuencoded set _must_ be named with the name on the
>"begin" line for uud to find them.

What I usually do is save the parts to "part01", "part02", and so on, then

% cat p* >foo
% uud foo

If uud can't find a file of the appropriate name, it continues to scan the
file it's on.

I'll add a warning about this to the binaries intro, though (which should be
coming your way later today.)

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