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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,misc.wanted
Subject: Re: unshar (Help!! We really need this program)
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 16:12:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 16:12:53 1987
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Summary: What about the shell?
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I must be dreaming or something ... I have been successfully
extracting "shar" format fines with the (Bourne) shell for quite a
while. What on earth could an "unshar" program do that the shell
cannot? If you are security-minded you might want to grep for the
extraction lines to see where the files are going to be written, but
that's a rather minor concern, and only takes a second even if you
do it by hand.

Michael C. Berch / mcb@lll-tis-b.arpa
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