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From: hve@cernvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 03:15:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 03:15:12 1987
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>In his article Ken writes:
>....
>I believe that there are unshar programs floating around. Perhaps we
>can find one and standardize on it.
>....
    Minix contains a "shar" program, which I used to "shar" all the source
files before writing them with "doswrite", directory by directory, to floppy.
I then used PC-DOS and a network connection to transfer them to our VAX UN*X
system running BSD 4.2, and tried to "unshar" them with "sh". At this point
I found out, that I had to port one program from Minix first, namely "gres",
and install it on our UN*X system. Having done this, I had no problems to
unshar Minix source.

    So, why look for a shar/unshar pair, if Minix provides it?