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splitter - a C program to split Usenet archives into separate threads (an updated version 8/12/92 - see Recent Notes and Fixes below) When I considered the benefits of decomposing the comp.sys.next.whatever feed so I could index it under Librarian, I wrote a simple C program to do it. When splitting the archive into filenames reflecting the subject of each thread, I also wanted to remove any offensive characters to the indexing function of Librarian. My program is called 'splitter' and requires the following syntax in a shell: > splitter prefix archive1 archive2 ... where prefix is a 1-6 character prefix for each created file. The prefix is requested in order to prevent undesirable first characters in filenames. Splitter was designed to operate on the Month.Z files (after they're uncompressed) available in the /pub/news directory on nova.cc.purdue.edu.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.