Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!sun505!dhesi From: dhesi@sun505.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: An idea for safer and portable unshar-ing Message-ID: <923@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 06:18:10 GMT References: <1989Sep30.171114.12550@chance.UUCP> <8910020054.AA08811@cscwam.UMD.EDU> <2270@munnari.oz.au> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 13 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 DhesiUUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi