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From: rhg@cpsolv.CPS.COM (Richard H. Gumpertz)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shar 3.49 (part 1 of 2)
Message-ID: <544@cpsolv.CPS.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 03:21:24 GMT
References: <3911@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <543@cpsolv.CPS.COM> <90261.205650QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
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In article <90261.205650QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>At the risk of some flames, how about putting a feature in your shar which
>I couldn't find (well not with 3.43....)? The version shipped by my
>vendor will add the uudecode source for sending to sites where they don't
>have it.

Talk about creeping featurism!  No, I won't add this.  Just refrain from
sending uuencoded shar files to people who don't have uudecode.

Actually, ALL versions of shar support this already: just specify your
favorite version of uudecode.c as the first argument to shar!

Maybe I am missing something.  Do you want uudecode to be automatically
compiled and installed such too?  In that case, we better send a C compiler,
assembler, and linker in the shar file too (in case the recipient is missing
one of those)!  Hey, that's the ticket: shar could do the whole bootstrap
process for porting Unix: just send the Unix source to a new machine and it
will automatically do everything needed to port Unix to that machine!  Moby
Sigh.

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