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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
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Subject: Re: Shar format found dangerous
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 17:46:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 15 17:46:55 1986
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In article <214@randvax.UUCP> guyton@randvax.UUCP (Jim Guyton) writes:
>We've got shar, tar, cpio, and ar.  None of which is very good for this
>kind of thing.

I thought that ar (the portable, readable archive, as used in BSD and
posted on the net a while ago) was supposed to be perfect for this
kind of stuff.  It never really caught on, though.  Anyone know why?
I think is might be that shar generators are easy to hack together
and personalize.
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CIMLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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