leading comments
John Woods
john at frog.UUCP
Sat Aug 24 02:36:20 AEST 1985
> 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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