Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!portal!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Binaries news group postings Message-ID: <1077@atari.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 00:58:07 GMT References: <3144@crash.cts.com> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 17 in article <3144@crash.cts.com>, sreeb@pnet01.cts.com (Ed Beers) says: > [stuff deleted] Is there a program > that allows unpacking these [shell archives] on my ST? Is there a real > need to use these rather than just arcing and uuencoding? > > UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!sreeb > ARPA: crash!pnet01!sreeb@nosc.mil > INET: sreeb@pnet01.cts.com I have seen a shar and unshar for the ST on BIX, but don't remember their origin. If your access to a machine that runs sh is limited, shar and unshar are a godsend for shell archives. -- Ken Badertscher | Hey, umm, the stuff I said up there Atari Software Test/Support | is, like, what _I_ think, okay? {portal,ames,imagen}!atari!kbad | So, y'know, don't bug Atari about it.