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From: mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive  (v1.22)" is bad
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.195540.18104@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 89 19:55:40 GMT
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Reply-To: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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If one is going to distribute things in a shar-like format, it
is really important that the protocol to shar and un-shar be described
in a method that is easily implemented as ordinary C (or whatever)
code. Using a UNIX shell is not satisfactory IF the operations
cannot be conveniently done by a relatively simple program.
This is so people who don't use UNIX can use these files. Binary
files should be clearly distinguished from text files. 

Doug McDonald(mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)