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