Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!kd4nc!n4hgf!wht From: wht@n4hgf.uucp (Warren Tucker) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Beyond shar (Re: shars and security concerns.) Message-ID: <682@n4hgf.uucp> Date: 3 May 90 19:29:56 GMT References: <662@n4hgf.uucp> <1152@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <518@cpsolv.CPS.COM> <1203@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <2641.263ea7ac@mccall.com> <18275@rpp386.cactus.org> Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker) Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF Lines: 40 In article <18275@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: >In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>I also agree that shars are getting out of hand. "shar" was a good idea for >> >The reason shar's were such a hot idea was that you could unwrap >shar's with tools you knew you had on the receiving side already. >The tools pre-dated the sharchive format ... Like sh? I still have that tool. Shar 3.21, cshar, shar2 and _ALL_ the other shars work well with the bourne shell. Stuff useful to systems other than UNIX should not be packed with shar3. I would be very sorry if auth had been packed with VMS DCL wrappers, since I _don't_ think it works there. Pack VMS source with DCL, insurance records with IBM tape labels, guns with gelatin and UNIX sources with shell archives. Really guys, to drive the point one more bloody inch into the ground, if you are worried about the color and shape of the envelope, the letter inside is really gonna keep you busy analyzing for aeons. Maybe you will answer the halting question and prove correctness in the process. If your machine can't handle the shar format, nothing I put in them will do more than make your compiler will vomit or your command line interpreter say "NO SUCH COMMAND: MAKE". Anyone who thought the _alt.sources_ shar thingie was an attempt to supplant all known shars or to shake the hypchondriac compulsive fringe is being deluded by their own pathetic sense of self-importance. If Haugh wants to call me a busybody, I call him a brown shirt. Now we are equally equal to sewage, square in flame vs. flame. If he flames me again, he shall remain one or more up forever. If a few want to make a religious issue of a collection of bits, count me out. I've had my full say here. I promise not to post on this subject again unless someone brings up a new, cogent idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warren Tucker, TuckerWare gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht%n4hgf@gatech.edu McCarthyism did to cinema what ANSI did to C, cast a great number of characters into the void.