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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File
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Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 13:07:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 25 13:07:43 1986
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am i missing something or is this fantasy of a mythical 'sh -xn file'
which shows you exactly what a shar file will do w/o doing it just that,
a fantasy.

Consider:

touch foo.bar
if [ -f foo.bar ]
then
	whatever
fi

how will this -xn flag know that foo.bar should exist at this point?
by simulating the entire unix system? sounds tough, sort of a 1-1 map
of the world.

Unless I miss something, save your time for thinking about another approach.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University