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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
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Subject: Re: Rogue Monster SHAR again ...
Message-ID: <10001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 19:50:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 19:50:59 1987
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> 	barfs on binary files and doesn't say "writting" (wild cheering),

    The version of shar on my system detects binary files, and encodes them,
    after packing up a simple C program to do the unpacking at the receiving
    end.  The appropriate cc command is also included in the shar to do the
    compile in /tmp.