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From: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: shar?  please?
Summary: unshar for PC's
Message-ID: <268@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 00:05:42 GMT
References: <5847@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <932@bucket.UUCP>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <932@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> In article <5847@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>  
> Please *don't*. It take me far more effort to get a shar'ed posting
> down to my XT than it does for a uuencoded one. 
>  ...
> With shr'ed files I have to strip everything out, copy the resulting file
> to an empty directory (to avoid name conflicts), unshar it, and then, like as
> not, download a dozen or so files. Blecch!

Rich Salz (moderator of comp.sources.unix) has written an unshar utility
that takes care of all the stripping and concatenating that you had to do
manually.  I have ported it to DOS and sent him the diffs.  He is promising
a re-release sometime early July (only a week or two now).  You can then
ship the entire sharfile to your XT and unshar it there.  I assume this
would make it slightly less unpalatable ;-].

> Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard

Greg Yachuk		Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA	(415) 322-4100
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