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Subject: Re: Shell Archive
Message-ID: <105100018@datacube>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 09:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 09:14:00 1987
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No, you can't undo a "shell archive" with ARC.  You need something that runs
Unix.  A "shell archive" is actually a program written for the Unix command
line interpreter ("shell"), so you would need this interpreter, plus some
extra utilities that the "archive" will use to unpack itself.  The shell
archive provides a means of gathering a bunch of files into one (as does
ARC), with the advantage that the archive format consists entirely of
printable characters.  A shell archive will never have a binary file in it,
unless perhaps that binary has been "uuencode"ed.


				Farrell T. Woods 

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