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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Could we have a standard "shar" file format?
Message-ID: <396@persci.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 13:09:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.396
Posted: Sat Sep 14 13:09:52 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 11:51:43 EDT
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I see that yet another "shar" script has been posted to net.sources. I would
like to see if the net could agree on a standard format for shar files,
especially for the first line. I use a simple script to extract shar files
from within postings, but it looks for a line that starts with:
 #!/bin/sh
or something like that. It does *NOT* work with shar files that start with
a colon in column 1 of the first line! I'm seeing a few of these coming over
the net now, and although it doesn't take a tremendous effort to extract these,
it is a little annoying after having received and used the "unshar" script.

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William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill