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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Re: Could we have a standard "shar" file format?
Message-ID: <252@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:59:39 EDT
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> It doesn't handle all the cases (like metachars after the #) but I wrote
> the smallest possible C program: "main(){}", called it #, and put it
> in /usr/local/bin.

That's not a solution, since the #: messages only annoy. Metacharacters
are the things that cause most of the problems. Shar files should start
with : '...'.