Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Shell encoded binaries in comp.binaries.ibm.pc Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 05:12:32 GMT References: <1991Jun14.131121.22608@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 41 valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes: > ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes: > > >In article <3360@shodha.enet.dec.com> timpson@shodha.enet.dec.com (Steve Tim > >> > >> Need some help here. In the comp.binaries.ibm.pc file many times > >> files are posted that require the extractor to us "sh" to shell > >> out the fill into usable code. This looks like unix stuff and I > >> do not have unix only VMS and MSDOS. What do I need to use > >> these files? > > >On MsDos try /pc/decode/uuexe413.zip. (Or have I missed the essence > >of the question?) > > I think you may have. I think the point is needing an unshar util, not > a uudecoder. If so, he needs it for some other group besides c.b.i.p... Bill places all the c.b.i.p postings in multi-part, uuencoded zoo archives. Uuexe413 is definitely the tool of choice for these. I use it daily. I have yet to see a shell archive in this group. Other groups, though, have shell archives frequently. I unpack them on my DOS machine with ms_sh, after adding a "swap off" to the head of each part. (if you don't do this, the original shell may not swap, but all sub-spawned shells _will_, which makes for an ungodly slow unpack!) Here are a few other possibilites, from SIMTEL: Directory PD1: SHAREXE.ARC B 159288 880221 Unix-like shar/unshar for DOS TOADSHR1.ARC B 34760 890615 DOS Unix-compatible shar/unshar, w/TP 5.0 src UNSHAR.ARC B 24192 880326 Disassemble a shar file Hope this helps. -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu perl -e '$x = 1/20; print "Just my \$$x! (adjusted for inflation)\n"' "What do you mean, you've never been to Alpha Centauri?" -- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz