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From: JOHN@UKANVAX.BITNET
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Subject: RE: shar for VMS
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 19:49:00 EDT
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Michael,

Thank you for your VMS_SHAR.COM.

I got the checksum failed message upon unpacking, but the result seems to be
intact anyway, after some line unwrapping.

Is this shar compatible with UNIX shar?

I have a few observations that might help the robustness of shar. I think there
might be a problem with line wrapping.  If the sent file has a long line, the
line might be wrapped while being kicked around the net. In fact, even if the
sender has been careful to keep things short, the extra "X" in front of each
line might make the lines that used to barely fit become too long.  Also, what
about trailing spaces?  Some systems strip them, and some systems pad all lines
to 80 characters.

--John


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