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From: bruce@ektools.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shell Archive
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 22:04:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 22:04:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 05:59:07 EDT
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Reply-To: bruce@ektools.UUCP (Bruce D. Nelson (408))
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester NY
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In article <20118G15@PSUVM> G15@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>A number of times, I've seen it mentioned that a file was a 'Shell Archive.'
>Just what the heck does this mean?

For those readers who are on UN*X type systems, shar archives are
shell scripts which, when run by the Bourne shell, will extract
the original files. A program known as shar creates these "archives".
Generally, an identifier character is prepended to each line, with
control statements at the beginning and end of each file in the
archive. With a bit of patience, the files can be extracted manually.

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