Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: c.b.i.p troubles? Summary: Do I have a goodie? Keywords: uudecode of latest postings Message-ID: <553@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 12:48:14 GMT References: <3458@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <6001@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: na Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 16 In article <6001@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes: | My UNIX uudecode DID complain; I essentially sent the article through the | following pipeline to extract the stuff: | | cat article | sed '/^[!-`]./s/[a-z]$//' | sed '/^END-/,/^BEGIN-/d'| uudecode Do I have a special "good" version of uudecode? The one I have ignores everything before the beginning of the data and after the end, and I can just: sed '/^END-/,/^BEGIN-/d'| uudecode without problems. I thought I had a garden variety. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon