Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!scott
From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SHELL ARCHIVE
Keywords: SHELL ARCHIVE
Message-ID: <1947@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jan 91 17:09:41 GMT
References: <2622@ac.dal.ca> <438@usun01.UUCP> <kebsch.663549649@peun33>
Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk
Reply-To: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
Lines: 16

In article <kebsch.663549649@peun33> kebsch@peun33.sni.de (Kebsch) writes:
>In <438@usun01.UUCP> hoepfner@usun01.UUCP (Andreas Hoepfner) writes:
>>In <2622@ac.dal.ca> ssmith@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>>Could some one tell me how to unpack a shell archive???
>> Shure, very simple !
>> You have to cut off the header and type 'sh shellarchive'.
>
>... but that you should do on a unix system.  :-)
>-wk.

Not necessarily so. I've used the Data Logic MS-DOS Bourne Shell
("ms_sh-1.6") and MKS sed to unshar files on a DOS system. Works fine.
 ____________________________________________________________________________
| Scott Telford                                Janet:   scott@uk.ac.hw.cs    |
| Dept of Comp Sci, Heriot-Watt Uni, UK.       uucp:    scott%hwcs@ukc.uucp  |
|_____ "Expect the unexpected" (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) ______|