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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive  (v1.22)" is bad
Message-ID: <1989Sep23.001758.6900@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 23 Sep 89 00:17:58 GMT
References: <1979@prune.bbn.com> <444@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Sep22.005247.11518@pcrat.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1989Sep22.005247.11518@pcrat.uucp> by rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson):
+---------------
| 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.
+---------------

This is, so to speak, "in the queue" -- I'll wait for the next release of
cshar, then add whatever is necessary.  I *do* run into these kinds of things,
since c.s.misc is inherently less structured than .unix.

++Brandon
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