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- Hi.
-
- I have mailed the GNU Bash shell to you since it was hard for you to get
- a copy otherwise. The original files were first tar'ed, then
- compressed, then uuencoded, and finally split.
-
- You can get them back together by:
-
- Saving each mail message WITHOUT THE HEADER in the file
- indicated in the subject line. When you save the message, make
- certain that each FILE ENDS IN ONE, AND ONLY ONE, NEWLINE.
-
- Concatenate the files together in lexographic order of their
- names. This means you type "cat bash-1.xx.tar.Z.uu.*" >bash.tar.Z.uu".
-
- uudecode bash.tar.Z.uu
-
- uncompress bash.tar.Z
-
- tar -xvf bash.tar
-
- This produces a directory called "bash-1.xx". The full source to bash
- resides in this directory. Now you can read the README file, or the
- INSTALL file, or whatever else I saw fit to put in the distribution.
-
- Do not be insulted by this letter. It is automatically sent to each
- person that the shell is mailed to, and is not meant to reflect on any
- person's Unix hacking knowledge or expertise. Hopefully, some people
- may have questions answered by it; I certainly would have found a file
- such as this one useful the first time I received a set of uuencoded
- split files.
-
- If you have suggestions for making the mailing of the shell easier on
- end users, or for improvements to this cover letter, please let me know!
-
- Bug reports for bash should be sent to bash-maintainers@ai.mit.edu.
- If this doesn't work for some reason, or you need an immediate reply,
- you can try sending mail to me.
-
- Brian Fox
- bfox@ai.mit.edu
- March 22, 1989
-