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From: dhesi@sun505.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: An idea for safer and portable unshar-ing
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Date: 3 Oct 89 06:18:10 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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The development of my "rap" archiver was suspended due to my move.
When I get a chance I will complete it.

The idea is to create an archive that is extractable by feeding it to
/bin/sh, but which has a rigid enough format that a relatively simply
program written in C can also extract it, includes 32-bit CRCs for
eror-checking, can be split into pieces at arbitrary points and later
concatenated without worrying about message headers, and escapes tabs
and characters so they pass survive IBM mainframe-based networks.

Rahul Dhesi 
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi