Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!karl 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 Lines: 10 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. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first." -- Pascal