Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!eichin From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: multi-package unshar Summary: if I have concatenated shar files, how do I unpack them all? Keywords: shar cat rrn Message-ID: <8261@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 2 Dec 88 11:22:01 GMT References: <4652@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <519@mitisft.Convergent.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 19 I've looked at the both unshar packages in the comp.sources.unix archives on UUNET. Both of them normally just feed stuff to sh, though it varies how well they deal with the `exit' at the end of an archive when it doesn't end the message. I usually concatenate multi-part archives (from rrn, usually something like "/Fnord part/jsFNORD") into one file, and then try to unshar that without bothering to split it. However, the exit at the end kills the shell... An approximate fix was to change the `if' in the volume 15 version to a `while', but that didn't quite work on real files. I don't have time to fix it myself; does anyone have another version that does more than this? Mark EichinSIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' [PS. email replies, if you can, I'll post a summary. Thanks.]