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From: eer@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shar for the mac?
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Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 11:06:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 11:06:06 1987
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Another approach, which does not have the advantage of doing
text compression, is to use unix 'more' to create a single file
via the command
	% more *.* >whatever

When you do that, more creates a file with the individual source
files separated by 
	::::::::::::::
	source/file/name
	::::::::::::::

which can then be parsed.  Obviously this works best with source files.

I've written a little 'c' routine for Lightspeed C which 'unmore's 
such files.  If anybody's interested in such a hack, I'll send it
via mail.

Frankly, I'm more interested in knowing if anybody has ported the
ARC program from the public domain to the mac.  If it does compression,
it would be better if running on both the unix and the mac ends.
The 'c' source was posted a while back, but I haven't had a chance to
play with it yet.  


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