Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!greggy 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. Lines: 22 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 {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!greggy !yes, I chose that login myself