From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T10:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] OOoExtract v0.1

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:01:36AM +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:

> >I'd like to announce the immediate availability of "OOoExtract" :
> >
> >http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/tools/ooo_extract.html
> 
> What's all that embedded "binary" at the end of the script?

It's a tar archive.  The script is a self-extracting archive.  I made it with 
Erik's Tar2RubyScript:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/

This program takes a directory with a ruby program and any number of files and packs 
them all together into one single script.  The idea being, that this makes it easier 
to distribute, because it is only one single, self-contained file.

If you download the tar.gz file under the "Download Source" link, you extract it, and 
run tar2rubyscript.rb on it, you will get the "binary" file under the "Download 
Program" link.

Cheers,
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