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From: peter@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Peter Bestel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .pit .shar Which programme created these?
Message-ID: <18172@ultima.cs.uts.oz>
Date: 12 Aug 90 22:59:40 GMT
References: <5024@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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pmiach@uluru7.ecr.mu.oz (Paul Anthony MIACH) writes:

>Hi!
>endings .pit and .shar. I have a feeling that .pit is PackIt but I have no
>idea about the .shar files. Also, you you give me a anon ftp site where I
>could get these programmes. Thanks in advance.

	The .pit postfix is indeed created by the Packit archiver. You don't
actually require the Packit program to un-pack these files though. Stuffit
has an option to un-pack, although it is a little slow.

	Files ending in .shar are normally text files in UNIX shell-archive
format (hence shar). There are several unshar programs available for the Mac.
Two that come to mind I think are available from any info-mac archive site
under their unix utilities section. They run under M.P.W. as well as a
stand-alone THINK C version.

					Peter Bestel
					University of Technology, Sydney.