Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill 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 Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA Lines: 14 *** FOLLOW THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** 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. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill