Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats Message-ID: <1273@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 1 Jun 88 23:43:39 GMT Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.1273 References: <868@fig.bbn.com> Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 22 Summary: And suppose a line begins with e.g. Xenix? In article <868@fig.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: : The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when : the first character is a non-alphabetic. I decided to do this to : ... : I'd like to see some discussion here, thanks. : Any line beginning with an X gets scrod. It also messes up alignments if you are visually inspecting before unshar-ing. Please change it to be consistent. Thanks, Thos Sumner (thos@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include