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From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Suggestion for Those Who Post to net.sources
Message-ID: <3126@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 00:08:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: decwrl.3126
Posted: Fri Aug 10 00:08:20 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 05:45:14 EDT
Organization: DEC Engineering Network
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Suggestion for Those Who Post to net.sources___________________________________

	The following was sent to net.news and net.wanted.  I think it should
also be posted here, so here it is:

> To aid in extracting "shar" files that are posted as news articles, I
> suggest that all shar archives end with an "exit" statement.  This avoids
> the need to check for and delete trailing signature lines from saved shar-
> format articles.
> -- 
>  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
>  MILNET: jdb@mordor.ARPA [jdb@s1-c]	(415) 422-0758
>  UUCP: ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!jdb 	...!decvax!decwrl!mordor!jdb

	I think it's a great idea.
		<_Jym_>

:::::::::::::::: Jym Dyer
::::'  ::  `:::: Nashua, New Hampshire
::'    ::    `::
::     ::     :: DYER%VAXUUM.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
::   .::::.   :: {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer
::..:' :: `:..::
::::.  ::  .:::: Statements made in this article are my own; they might not
:::::::::::::::: reflect the views of |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation.

P.S.:  Just so certain self-imposed traffic cops don't tie up Usenet phone
lines with pointless automatic mail to me complaining that I'm ruining their
lives by forcing them to remove my articles from their automatic net.sources
saving archives by hand, here's a VMS command procedure:

$!<* STATUS.COM________________________________________________________________
$!** 2-Aug-1984 - by <_Jym_Dyer_>
$!**========================================================================**!
$!**  To take a peek at the status code.				    **!
$!**========================================================================*>!
$ Status = '$status'
$ if (p1 .nes. "") then Status = 'p1'
$ Error = f$message(Status)
$ show symbol/local Status
$ write sys$output Error
$ exit