On Fri 22 Aug 2003 at 14:54:43 +0200, Marco van Loon wrote: > > :e|ydecode > > :s|ydecode > > That will only work if ydecode has a 'dumb' "blindly decode and append an > article" mode... > If you've got a 4-article multi-part binary, the above does: > ydecode article1 > ydecode article2 > ydecode article3 > ydecode article4 > > instead of ydecode article1 article2 article3 article4 The ydecoder that I have handles this situation perfectly. I believe it is simply the reference implementation, more or less, just made to compile properly on my Alpha. And no, it is not "blindly decode and append an article" mode, you can decode the articles in any order. yEnc was designed for this, after all. -Olaf. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The evil eye is caused by the black \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- tongue - Tom Poes, "Het boze oog", 4456. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0