Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive  (v1.22)" is bad
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.005247.11518@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 89 00:52:47 GMT
References: <1979@prune.bbn.com> <444@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <444@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1979@prune.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>|  I'm finishing up the "final" release of my cshar tools.  This is what
>  It's my "shar2" tool.
>It's a consequence of
>splitting files to make equal size archives rather than doing an
>aproximation with whole size.

OK guys, lets get together so that the next 'shar' coming from
whomever, does some much needed things, like:

1) handle automatic compression followed by {uuencoding,btoa'ing}
   so that those odd bits of binary junk (like icons, etc.) can be
   automatically handled.

2) handle large (>50) input files.  Recently, I had to resort to
   the ugliness of invoking 1) on a document file that was too large
   to fit into a 'cshar' archive.  The document was palatable
   to the network, but not to cshar.

I think its important that the *.sources moderator realize that
there are times when these things are needed.  If Rich produces
a new shar program as *.sources moderator, it is tantamount to becoming
the 'standard'.  I know that when I was selecting a shar program among
the many available, I picked the current cshar simply because the
moderator of *.sources had written it.  And then had to hack it
to do the binary stuff.  I hope the 'standard' covers the needs of the
posters.

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