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From: cory@three.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .pit .shar Which programme created these?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 02:27:44 GMT
References: <5024@munnari.oz.au>
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pmiach@uluru7.ecr.mu.oz (Paul Anthony MIACH) writes:

>Hi!
>	I would just like to know which programmes produce files with the
>endings .pit and .shar. 

.pit is packit.  Stuffit can unpack .pit files, as can Pack-it.  .shar
sounds like it is the unix shar format: shell archive.  A very simple
format that can be "unshared" by /bin/sh on any unix box (at least any
that I have come accross).  There are also several programmes that will
do the same and provide more security (since shar files are unshared by
executing them with the shell, and contain shell commands, they can 
contain ANY command (e.g. 'rm -f / &')).

+C
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