Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!husc6!mailrus!ames!elroy!devvax!lwall From: lwall@devvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats Message-ID: <2175@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 4 Jun 88 19:31:25 GMT References: <868@fig.bbn.com> <1494@microsoft.UUCP> <4838@teddy.UUCP> <887@fig.bbn.com> <2993@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 16 In article <2993@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes: : In article <887@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: : : >An X on all lines seems to me playing lowest-common-denominator safety, : >in the same league as <64K postings. Unfortunately it has a cost. : : Yes, but all the same, I would urge you NOT to do otherwise. I have had a : *NIX sort-of-look-alike for some time that DID NOT have a working 'sh' shell. : All my unsharing has to be with a text editor or sed. Complex prefix rules : are difficult to cope with if you cant run the 'official' tools. Also, Rich, I just sent out a patch to patch so that it will extract patches from shar files AS LONG AS the number of X's is consistent. So you don't need to apologize for sending out patches in shar files any more. Larry "just-one-more-feature" Wall