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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: An idea for safer and portable unshar-ing
Message-ID: <6384@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 2 Oct 89 15:11:59 GMT
References: <1989Sep30.171114.12550@chance.UUCP> <8910020054.AA08811@cscwam.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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I think a portable archiver that writes headers in character format is the
way to go as a long-term replacement for shar, something along the line
of "cpio -oc"   

It is still very desirable to be able to examine the contents of an archive
without having to uudecode, unzoo, etc.  This argues for a textual archive,
continuing current practice.
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